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A major international conference entitled after Beckett d'après Beckett, was held at the Sydney Theatre Company's renowned Wharf Theatre on Sydney Harbour from 6 - 9 January 2003. The conference, which was opened and attended by Beckett's literary executor and nephew Edward Beckett, was endorsed by the Beckett International Foundation and the Samuel Beckett Society. Featured speakers The conference featured addresses by celebrated French philospher Luce Irigaray, South African novelist and two-time Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, American performance theorists Herbert Blau and Peggy Phelan and other prominent academics, artists and theatre practitioners including Stan Gontarski, Steven Connor, Mary Bryden and Ruby Cohn. Beckett Public Lecture The Keynote address was held in conjunction with the Sydney Festival as a Beckett Public Lecture at the Sydney Town Hall on the evening of Wednesday 8 January 2003.
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The conference will feature speakers on different aspects of Beckett’s works, life, the context of their composition or reception, and approaches to their production.
In addition it will include papers concerning the influence of Beckett’s works on others in various fields (those working ‘d’après’ or in the manner of Beckett) and questions concerning the direction of contemporary artistic practice ‘after’ Beckett and those elements of 20th century avant garde with which he was associated. Beckett’s prose and dramatic works continue to appeal to artists and others both within and beyond the realms of literature and theatre, eliciting creative responses across many fields, ranging from sound and visual arts to philosophy, social criticism, cultural studies and ethics.
The Symposium will seek to take stock of the nature of this legacy and the range of this influence.
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