Critical Writing Index

Samuel Beckett's "Ghost Trio"

by Peter Gidal

Artforum, May 1979, v. 17, no. 9, pp. 53-57

Peter Gidal reviews Samuel Beckett's "Ghost Trio", a play written for television and broadcast by the BBC in 1976. Gidal posits the tele-play as the most radical use of television as a materialist practice. He supports this position by analysis of camera direction as metaphor, visual narrative and aural affect.

ITEM 1979.064 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

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Ghost TrioSamuel Beckett