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The Space of Play in L'Impromptu d' Ohio

One of the most innovative aspects of Beckett's dramatic practice is his sculptural and semantic use of space. The "framing" of individual forms against the space of the stage, of sounds against silence, emphasizes their visual or aural materiality, and highlights the "gestalt" between form and space, figure and ground. The rigourous dramatic structure provides a framework within which each element is juxtaposed with other scenic or verbal elements, creating a continual interplay and questioning of levels of interpretation, while expanding and extending the play of associations or implications. Instead of a linear unfolding of plot, there is a juxtaposition of presented or represented "images of being" throughout the space and time of the performance, emphasizing the Derridean lack of a stable centre of meaning, or indeed of being, at the heart of the formal structure.