In fact, productions of the so-called “dramaticules” have multiplied on the world scene, although often presented in antologies, collections, or multiple billings. Nevertheless, his most challenging pièces, the shorter plays, appear to be still waiting for a ‘staging tradition’ which could make the most of their constitutive brevity. His late style as a dramatist and a director has influenced contemporary performative theatre in artistic, socio-cultural, and even commercial terms (formats, bills, venues and unconventional settings such as installations, exhibitions, and urban spaces). Samuel Beckett’s poetics of “less is more” has anticipated and even partly shaped the evolution of contemporary drama and theatre as one of the fundamental models of the performative turn of the last decades.
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