Séance
Funny Business With Beckett's Endgame, Joyce's Ghost And O'Brian's Shadow.
Abstract
Séance is a response to Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (1957) a hybrid piece of dramatic monologue masquerading as stand-up, with a running commentary from the ghost of James Joyce (or Joyce as imagined by Flann O’Brien, or at least as O’Brien might have imagined Joyce). Using drama, comedy, gossip, and criticism, Séance explores the themes of Endgame alongside its biographical and literary context, its inheritance and influence.
The title is inspired by Un Séance Consacrée à James Joyce, held in Paris, 26th March 1931, a reading of extracts from Joyce’s A Work in Progress (later Finnegan’s Wake, 1939).
[C]omment commenting comment (Beckett)