JOURNAL ARTICLE

'Did I Ever Leave You?': Site-Responsive Scenography in Druid's Waiting for Godot (2016).

  • Published In: Irish University Review, 2025, v. 55, n. 1. P. 52 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Duane, Chloé 3 of 3

Abstract

Focusing on the case study of Druid's Unusual Rural Tour of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (2016), this article explores how Druid use site-responsive scenography to engage the histories and cultural legacies of the Inis Meáin landscape. In doing so, the themes of class and starvation in Beckett's Godot are recontextualised within the barren performance site, thus creating allusions to the Irish Potato Famine. The use of site in this way, as audience questionnaires attest, invites an audience to bring their own memories, knowledge and feelings about the site, both perceived and conceived, and utilise this in their meaning-making process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Irish University Review. 2025/05, Vol. 55, Issue 1, p52
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:00211427
  • DOI:10.3366/iur.2025.0708
  • Accession Number:185448431
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