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WHAT IS IT?
It is a search out of chaos because we can’t find our way.
A conflict between human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life
COME AGAIN??
Human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down
Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence.
ORIGIN OF ABSURDISM
•Post WWII Germany - 1950s•What do you think led the Germans to create this philosophy? •Why did they feel it necessary to create theatre like this?
SOCIAL/CULTURAL CONTEXT
•Do you think Theatre of the Absurd was well received by audiences?
•What did the typical theatre goers expect from an evening at the theatre?
TWO MAIN CONCEPTS
The random, lack of connection between actions, objects and words.
The playfulness between the actors in being able to convey this randomness.
ABSURDIST PLAYWRIGHTS Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot (1948)▪ The futility of waiting
for something that will never come
Edward Albee The Zoo Story
(1958) Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf? (1962)
ABUSRDIST PLAYWRIGHTS Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)
Eugene Ionesco The Lesson 1951▪ Prof. deals with
monotonies of language while teaching others
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