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[[Samuel Beckett]] wrote his television play '''''... but the clouds ...''''' is a television play by [[Samuel Beckett]]. Beckett wrote it between October–November 1976 “to replace a film of ''[[Play (play)|Play]]'' which the [[BBC]] had sent [him] for approval (and which he had rejected)”<ref>Ackerley, C. J. and Gontarski, S. E., (Eds.) ''The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett'', (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), p 77</ref> due to “the poor quality of the film”. Donald McWhinnie directed [[Billie Whitelaw]] and [[Ronald Pickup]]. It was first broadcast on 17 April 1977 as part of a programme of three Beckett plays entitled ‘Shades’ on [[BBC2]]. It was first published in ''Ends and Odds'' (Faber) 1977. An early title for the piece was '''''Poetry only love'''''.

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[[Samuel Beckett]] wrote his television play '''''... but the clouds ...''''' between October–November 1976 “to replace a film of ''[[Play (play)|Play]]'' which the [[BBC]] had sent [him] for approval (and which he had rejected)”<ref>Ackerley, C. J. and Gontarski, S. E., (Eds.) ''The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett'', (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), p 77</ref> due to “the poor quality of the film”. Donald McWhinnie directed [[Billie Whitelaw]] and [[Ronald Pickup]]. It was first broadcast on 17 April 1977 as part of a programme of three Beckett plays entitled ‘Shades’ on [[BBC2]]. It was first published in ''Ends and Odds'' (Faber) 1977. An early title for the piece was '''''Poetry only love'''''.

==Title==

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===Stages===

Unlike ''[[Quad (play)|Quad]]'', which utilises a single fixed camera throughout, there are a total of sixty camera shots in this piece, “the shape of an hour or a minute”,<ref name="multiref3">Brater, E., ‘Intertextuality’ in Oppenheim, L., (Ed.) ''Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies'' (London: Palgrave, 2004), p 37</ref> which can be organised into four groups or stages. There are only two televisual techniques used throughout the play: fade and dissolve.

====Stage 1====

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==Music==

A version with music by [[Martin Pearlman]] was produced at the [[92nd Street Y]] in New York for the Beckett centennial in 2006.<ref>[http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/2006/03/29/ 92nd Street Y, Samuel Becket at 100, Three Plays]</ref>.

==References==