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''Ghost Trio'' is a television play, written in English by Samuel Beckett. It was written in 1975, taped in October 1976 and the first broadcast was on BBC2 on 17 April 1977 as part of the ''Lively Arts'' programme Beckett himself entitled ''Shades''. Donald McWhinnie directed (supervised by Beckett) with Ronald Pickup and Billie Whitelaw. The play’s original title was to be ''Tryst''. "On Beckett’s notebook, the word was crossed out vigorously and the new title ''Ghost Trio'' written next to it. On the title page of the BBC script the same handwritten title change can be found, indicating that it must have been corrected at the very last minute."〔Maier, M., ‘(Geistertrio: Beethoven’s Music in Samuel Beckett’s Ghost Trio )’ in ''Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Samuel Beckett in the Year 2000'', pp 268,269〕 It was first published in ''Journal of Beckett Studies'' 1 (Winter 1976) and then collected in ''Ends and Odds'' (Grove Press, 1976; Faber, 1977). Its three ‘acts’ reflect Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Trio (Opus 70, #1), known as ''The Ghost'' because of the slightly spooky mood of the second movement, Largo. The passages selected by Beckett are from the "ghostly" second theme. ''Geistertrio'', directed by Beckett was recorded by Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart in May 1977 with Klaus Herm and Irmgard Först and broadcast 1 November 1977.〔Gontarski, S. E., ‘Beckett and Performance’ in Oppenheim, L., (Ed.) ''Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies'' (London: Palgrave, 2004), p 206〕 The idea for the piece dates back to 1968. At the time, whilst Beckett was working on the French translation of ''Watt'', he had the first glimmerings of an idea for another television play. He discussed this with Josette Hayden who made the following note, which is probably all that remains of the original sketch: : A man is waiting, reading a newspaper, looking out of the window, etc., seen first at distance, then again in close-up, and the close-up forces a very intense kind of intimacy. His face, gestures, little sounds. Tired of waiting he ends up getting into bed. The close-up enters into the bed. No words or very few. Perhaps just a few murmurs.〔Note in French by Josette Hayden (7 January 1968) translated by James Knowlson and quoted in Knowlson, J., ''Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett'' (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), p 555〕 ==Synopsis== Beckett’s stage layout is very precise. The setting yet another "familiar chamber",〔Beckett, S., ''Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett'' (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), p 248〕 as the woman’s voice puts it. In the text he includes a detailed diagram, a variation of which is reproduced aside. Aside from the music, there are other trios at work here: there are three characters, the film is shot from three camera angles (which increase by three shots in each ‘act’) and the play is broken into three ‘acts’, each with a meaningful title. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ghost Trio (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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