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“Only Her Mouth Could Move”: Sensory Deprivation and the Billie Whitelaw Plays
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 59, Number 3, Fall 2015 (T227)
- pp. 91-107
- Article
- Additional Information
During rehearsals for the 1973 British premiere of Beckett’s Not I, actor Billie Whitelaw collapsed. The actor’s affective experience archives the sensory approach of Beckett’s compositional innovations and demonstrates the collaborative nature of working with this sensation-depriving dramatist.