David Pattie is Professor of Drama at the University of Chester. He is the author of The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett (Routledge, 2001); Rock Music in Performance (Palgrave 2007) and Modern British Playwrights: The 1950s (Methuen 2012). He has also co-edited two collections in popular music: Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop (Continuum, 2011) and Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Continuum, 2016). He has published on Beckett, contemporary theatre and performance, popular music, and popular culture; and he was part of a major three-year AHRC funded project (Staging Beckett) which examined productions of Beckett in the UK and Ireland.