Theatre of the Absurd
Wed, 7 Mar 2007, 05:09 pmSean B11 posts in thread
Theatre of the Absurd
Wed, 7 Mar 2007, 05:09 pmRecently my drama class has been studying Theatre of the Absurd studying playwrights and dramatists such as Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.
Over the holidays we had the set task of reading "The Bald Prima Donna" which (although not fully understanding what was going on over the holidays) I did enjpoy.
This was really our first actual study into this form of theatre, I have read extracts from plays such as "Waiting For Godot" and "Rhinoceros" which I found very interesting at the time.
In a few weeks we are off to see Geoffrey Rush in 'Exit The king' which I am also excited about as we will be able to see Absurdism on stage, a factor that ome students in the class are definately finding confusing...but is that what absurdism is meant to be?
(I'll review Exit The King on this site after I've seen it)
So what does everyone else think about Absurdism?
Has anyone been in any absurdist plays?
I'd really like to know, I find it all quite fascinating!
My view.
Mon, 14 May 2007, 01:27 pmWalter Plinge
hi there.
we are studying theatre of the absurd as part of our yr 12 drama currciculu this year. it has been very enjoyable so far. i simply feel that the playwrights and actors are just conveying everyones own thoughts, opinions and circumstances from real life and twisting them to make them seem absurd when really they could be quite normal. ask yourself have you ever thought about death? (which seems to be a common factor in most absurd pices) i believe the answer would be yes. They are simply using real life circumstances and putting an 'edge' i guess you could say to them which makes us think beyond what we already knew and percieved of the world.