A One-Day Symposium

12-12.45pm Lunch

12.45-1.15 Welcome Jonathan Heron

Excerpt from Rough for Theatre II Fail Better Productions

Beckett, Performance and Mental Health Matthew Broome and Jonathan Heron

1.15-1.35pm Footfalls Rosemary Pountney

1.35-1.45pm Beckett and the Brain: Collaborative Practice Elizabeth Barry

1.45-2.30pm Beckett and Aphasia: A Conversation between Languages Christopher Code (Exeter) and Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck)

2.30pm-3pm Deathly narratives in Beckett and neuroscience? Peter Fifield (York)

3pm-3.20pm Coffee

3.20-3.40pm Ohio Impromptu Fail Better Productions

3.40-4pm Impersonal Projection Elizabeth Barry (Warwick)

4-4.30pm ‘...but the brain': Agency, Reflex and Pathology in Beckett's Drama Ulrika Maude (Durham)

4.30-4.45pm Break

4.45-5pm ‘alas alas on on the skull the skull’ Fail Better Student Ensemble

5-5.30pm Deferred Emotional Reactions: The Study of Hysteria in Beckett's Not I Rina Kim (Warwick)

5.30-5.40pm ‘something begging in the brain’ Fail Better Student Ensemble

5.40pm Closing Words and Drinks