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Introduction - Part 1: Principles and methods of reductionism -- Reductionism in the natural sciences -- Reductionism in the human sciences -- Critique of reductionism - Part II: Towards an epistemology of drama and the theatre -- The arts and the sciences -- The theatre as practical science -- The theatre and truth -- Analysis in action on a stage of observation -- Processing the product - Part III: Samuel Beckett: less. ever less -- Chronology of Beckett's dramatic works -- Celebration of diminution -- Epistemology of indeterminacy -- Reductions from conventional drama to Godot -- Reductions from Godot to what where -- Reductions from beginning to end -- Draft manuscript reductions -- Directorial reductions -- Reductions to other art forms -- Epistemology of Indeterminacy -- Summary and conclusion.