Three Plays Of The Absurd

Author : Walter Wykes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847284051
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Plays of the Absurd written by Walter Wykes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of plays, Walter Wykes creates a series of modern myths, tapping into something in the strata of the subconscious, through ritualism and rich, poetic language. The worlds he creates are brand new and hilarious, yet each contains an ancient horror we all know and cannot escape and have never been able to hang one definitive word on. The Profession follows the experiences of a naive young man exposed to the inner workings of a secret society of assassins. In Fading Joy a young woman finds herself caught up in the intoxicating world of a smooth-talking salesman. When he flees to escape a mysterious group known only as The Tall Men, she finds it impossible to go back to her old way of life. Finally, The Father Clock tells the apocalyptic tale of two actors and a stage manager abandoned by their aging director. As the auditorium begins to fill and the lights dim, they desperately attempt to pull the show together even as a strange illness drifts through the theatre.

Author : Ezio D'Errico
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838633991
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezio D'Errico's Theater of the Absurd written by Ezio D'Errico and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Esslin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307548015
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of the Absurd written by Martin Esslin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters’ inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition. Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin’s landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett’s tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre.

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129605
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny' Daily Telegraph In Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.

Author : Carmen Dominte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559882
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carmen Dominte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.

Author : M. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118828
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd written by M. Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571193837
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book plays, 6 revue sketches, a short story and a speech written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190782
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amédée, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty written by Eugène Ionesco and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three hilarious and provocative plays by the absurdist pioneer who remains “one of the most important and influential figures in the modern theater” (Library Journal). The author of such modern classics as The Bald Soprano, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, and The Chairs, Eugene Ionesco’s plays have become emblematic of Absurdist theatre and the French avant-garde. This essential collection combines The New Tenant with Amédée and Victims of Duty—plays Richard Gilman has called, along with The Killer, Ionesco’s “greatest plays, works of the same solidity, fulness, and permanence as [those of] his predecessors in the dramatic revolution that began with Ibsen and is still going on.” In Amédée, the title character and his wife have a problem—not so much the corpse in their bedroom as the fact that it’s been there for fifteen years and is now growing, slowly but surely crowding them out of their apartment. In The New Tenant, a similar crowding is caused by an excess of furniture—as Harold Hobson said in the London Times, “there is not a dramatist . . . who can make furniture speak as eloquently as Ionesco, and here he makes it the perfect, the terrifying symbol of the deranged mind.” In Victims of Duty, Ionesco parodies the conformity of modern life by plunging his characters into an obscure search for “mallot with a t.”

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : New York : Grove Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Samuel Beckett and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heiner Müller
Publisher : German List
ISBN 13 : 9780857427083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Heiner Müller and published by German List. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller (1929-95) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting new translations and opening up his work to a larger audience. Collected here are three of his plays--Philoctetes, The Horatian, and Mauser--whose poetic texts evidence the influence of Shakespeare, classical Greek tragedy, and avant-garde political theater on his works. Together they constitute what Müller called an "experimental series," which both develops and critiques Brecht's theory of the Lehrstück, or "learning play." Based on a tragedy by Sophocles, Philoctetes dramatizes the confrontation between politics, morality, and the desire for revenge. The Horatian uses an incident from ancient Rome as an example of ways of approaching the moral ambiguity of the past. Finally, Mauser, set during the Russian civil war, examines the nature and ethics of revolutionary violence. The plays are accompanied by supporting materials written by Müller himself, as well as an introduction by Uwe Schütte that contextualizes the plays and speaks of their continued relevance today.