What Where, the Glossary
What Where is Samuel Beckett's last play produced following a request for a new work for the 1983 Autumn Festival in Graz, Austria.[1]
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101 relations: Act Without Words II, Adjective, Alan Schneider, Analogy, Ardmore Studios, Armenia, Arrest, Arthur Rimbaud, Association football, Beckett on Film, Bim Bom, Catastrophe (play), Chamber opera, Cinematographer, Close-up, Clown, Come and Go, County Wicklow, Cowl, David Warrilow, Death mask, Detention (imprisonment), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Emblem, Endgame (play), Epilogue, Fez (hat), Figure of speech, Finnegans Wake, Fluorescence, Footfalls, Franz Schubert, Frequency, Gary Lewis (actor), Global Village Video, Graz, HAL 9000, Halo (optical phenomenon), Harold Clurman, Heinz Holliger, High tech, History of Südwestrundfunk, How It Is, Human Rights Watch, Incorporeality, Journal of Beckett Studies, Kay Boyle, Krapp's Last Tape, Lied, Loudspeaker, ... Expand index (51 more) »
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- Plays by Samuel Beckett
Act Without Words II
Act Without Words II is a short mime play by Samuel Beckett, his second (after Act Without Words I). What Where and Act Without Words II are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
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Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
Alan Schneider
Alan Schneider (December 12, 1917 – May 3, 1984) was an American theatre director responsible for more than 100 theatre productions.
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Analogy
Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share.
Ardmore Studios
Ardmore Studios, in Bray, County Wicklow, is Ireland's oldest film studio.
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Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.
Arrest
An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime.
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Beckett on Film
Beckett on Film was a project aimed at making film versions of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's stage plays, with the exception of the early and unperformed Eleutheria.
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Bim Bom
Bim Bom (or Bim and Bom) was a Moscow circus clown duo consisting of Ivan Radunsky (as Bim) and various "Boms", active intermittently from 1891 up until at least World War II.
Catastrophe (play)
Catastrophe is a short play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1982 at the invitation of A.I.D.A. (Association Internationale de Défense des Artistes) and “irst produced in the Avignon Festival (21 July 1982) … Beckett considered it ‘massacred.’” It is one of his few plays to deal with a political theme and, arguably, holds the title of Beckett's most optimistic work. What Where and Catastrophe (play) are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
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Chamber opera
Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.
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Cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece.
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Close-up
A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object.
Clown
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.
Come and Go
Come and Go is a short play (described as a "dramaticule" on its title page) by Samuel Beckett. What Where and Come and Go are plays by Samuel Beckett.
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County Wicklow
County Wicklow (Contae Chill Mhantáin) is a county in Ireland.
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Cowl
A cowl is an item of clothing consisting of a long, hooded garment with wide sleeves, often worn by monks.
David Warrilow
David Warrilow (28 December 1934 – 17 August 1995) was an English actor best known as one of the "finest interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s work".
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Death mask
A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse.
Detention (imprisonment)
Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing their freedom or liberty at that time.
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music.
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Emblem
An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept, like a moral truth, or an allegory, or a person, like a monarch or saint.
Endgame (play)
Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. What Where and Endgame (play) are plays by Samuel Beckett.
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Epilogue
An epilogue or epilog (from Greek ἐπίλογος epílogos, "conclusion" from ἐπί epi, "in addition" and λόγος logos, "word") is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the work.
Fez (hat)
The fez, also called tarboosh/tarboush (translit), is a felt headdress in the shape of a short, cylindrical, peakless hat, usually red, typically with a black tassel attached to the top.
Figure of speech
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of speech constitute the latter.
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Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce.
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Fluorescence
Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.
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Footfalls is a play by Samuel Beckett. What Where and Footfalls are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
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Frequency
Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
Gary Lewis (actor)
Gary Stevenson (born 30 November 1957), better known as Gary Lewis, is a Scottish actor.
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Global Village Video
Global Village Video (Global Village Video Resource Center) was a pioneering Manhattan-based media center that operated from the late 1960s to the 1980s.
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Graz
Graz is the capital of the Austrian federal state of Styria and the second-largest city in Austria, after Vienna.
HAL 9000
HAL 9000 (or simply HAL or Hal) is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series.
Halo (optical phenomenon)
A halo is an optical phenomenon produced by light (typically from the Sun or Moon) interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
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Harold Clurman
Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an American theatre director and drama critic.
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Heinz Holliger
Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss virtuoso oboist, composer and conductor.
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High tech
High technology (high tech or high-tech), also known as advanced technology (advanced tech) or exotechnology, is technology that is at the cutting edge: the highest form of technology available.
History of Südwestrundfunk
In Bavaria and in Württemberg-Baden, Radio München (Munich) and Radio Stuttgart went on air in 1945.
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How It Is
How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett first published in French as Comment c'est by Les Editions de Minuit in 1961.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Incorporeality
Incorporeality is "the state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism." Incorporeal (Greek: ἀσώματος) means "Not composed of matter; having no material existence.
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Journal of Beckett Studies
The Journal of Beckett Studies publishes academic articles relating to the work of Samuel Beckett, (1906–1989), the Irish poet, dramatist and playwright.
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Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist.
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape is a 1958 one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. What Where and Krapp's Last Tape are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
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Lied
In the Western classical music tradition, Lied is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music.
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
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Megaphone
A megaphone, speaking trumpet, bullhorn, blowhorn, or loudhailer is usually a portable or hand-held, cone-shaped acoustic horn used to amplify a person's voice or other sounds and direct it in a given direction.
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
Mime artist
A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor"), is a person who uses mime (also called pantomime outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.
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Monograph
A monograph is a specialist written work (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on one subject or one aspect of a usually scholarly subject, often by a single author or artist.
More Pricks Than Kicks
More Pricks Than Kicks is a collection of short prose by Samuel Beckett, first published in 1934.
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Murphy (novel)
Murphy, first published in 1938, is an avant-garde novel, the third work of prose fiction by the Irish author and dramatist Samuel Beckett.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell.
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
Not I
Not I is a short dramatic monologue written in 1972 (20 March to 1 April) by Samuel Beckett which was premiered at the "Samuel Beckett Festival" by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, New York (22 November 1972). What Where and Not I are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
Oedipus
Oedipus (Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.
Ohio Impromptu
Ohio Impromptu is a "playlet" by Samuel Beckett. What Where and Ohio Impromptu are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
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Original sin
Original sin is the Christian doctrine that holds that humans, through the act of birth, inherit a tainted nature with a proclivity to sinful conduct in need of regeneration.
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Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress is a 1929 collection of critical essays, and two letters, on the subject of James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake, then being published in discrete sections under the title Work in Progress.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 160025 May 1681) (full name: Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer.
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Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
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Plural
The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.
Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Portrait (literature)
The portrait, as a literary genre, is a written description or analysis of a person or thing.
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Power (social and political)
In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors.
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Proust (essay)
Samuel Beckett's essay Proust, published in 1930, is a study of Marcel Proust.
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Quad (play)
Quad is a television play by Samuel Beckett, written and first produced and broadcast in 1981. What Where and Quad (play) are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
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Realism (theatre)
Realism in the theatre was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century.
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Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington; 8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) was an English writer and poet.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
Scenario
In the performing arts, a scenario (from Italian, "that which is pinned to the scenery") is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events.
Seán McGinley
Seán McGinley (born March 1, 1956) is an Irish actor.
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
Song cycle
A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in sequence, as a unit.
Sonnet
The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from the Latin word sonus). It refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme.
Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
That Time
That Time is a one-act play by Samuel Beckett, written in English between 8 June 1974 and August 1975. What Where and That Time are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
Théâtre du Rond-Point
The Théâtre du Rond-Point is a theatre in Paris, located at 2bis avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt, 8th arrondissement.
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Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), also known as Tom Moore, was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies.
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Three Dialogues
Originally published in Transition 49 in 1949, Three Dialogues represents a small part (fewer than 3000 words) of a correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit about the nature of contemporary art, with particular reference to the work of Pierre Tal-Coat, André Masson and Bram van Velde.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.
Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
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Trial
In law, a trial is a coming together of parties to a dispute, to present information (in the form of evidence) in a tribunal, a formal setting with the authority to adjudicate claims or disputes.
Undead
The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if alive.
Voyelles
"Voyelles" or "Vowels" is a sonnet in alexandrines by Arthur Rimbaud, written in 1871 but first published in 1883.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives. What Where and Waiting for Godot are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.
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Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Winterreise
Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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See also
1983 plays
- Az imposztor
- Baby with the Bathwater
- Blake (monologue)
- Daisy Pulls It Off
- Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
- Fen (play)
- Finding the Sun
- Fool for Love (play)
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- It Could Be Any One Of Us
- Kalat Claimed
- Kiss of the Spider Woman (play)
- Memoirs of the Actor in a Supporting Role
- Moose Murders
- Not About Heroes
- Ordinary People (play)
- Orphans (Lyle Kessler play)
- Pack of Lies
- Painting Churches
- Precisely (sketch)
- Run for Your Wife (play)
- Sound and Beauty
- The Blind Giant Is Dancing
- The Gigli Concert
- The House of Sleeping Beauties
- The Man Who Had Three Arms
- The Open Couple
- The Park (play)
- The Sound of a Voice
- This is For You, Anna
- Underground (play)
- What Where
Plays by Samuel Beckett
- ... but the clouds ...
- A Piece of Monologue
- Act Without Words I
- Act Without Words II
- All That Fall
- Breath (play)
- Cascando
- Catastrophe (play)
- Come and Go
- Eh Joe
- Eleutheria (play)
- Embers
- Endgame (play)
- Footfalls
- From an Abandoned Work
- Ghost Trio (play)
- Happy Days (play)
- Krapp's Last Tape
- Nacht und Träume (play)
- Not I
- Ohio Impromptu
- Play (play)
- Quad (play)
- Rockaby
- Rough for Radio I
- Rough for Radio II
- Rough for Theatre II
- That Time
- The Old Tune
- Waiting for Godot
- What Where
- Words and Music (play)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Where
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