What Where (2/2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjk3nxgn3Aw&fmt=18

If Youtube says this video is "no longer available," try the url above, that one may play.

I think this might happen if you're using IE. I have no idea why. Maybe I should repost this.

Anyway, The play by Samuel Beckett

The second half. So watch the first part first.

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[MissGuideMe]

This play echos Beckett's fascination with the circular nature of time. There are 5 in the beginning. As each iteration appears their facial mannerisms change from the first's sly torturers smile, to a look of panic, then resignation. Their faces betray their fear as their fate becomes more obvious and inevitable. Time passes, the seasons change. The final incarnation of Bel attempts negotiation and reason but fails. Resonances of Kafka

[mranenome]

Yeah, they're stuck in a clockwork bureaucracy. Its rules are their habits, their habits rule their minds. They follow the forms, complete the cycles, fulfill the function, even though they can see the machine's function is to destroy itself. The narrator ultimately makes a virtue of adhering to his duty, while acknowledging that it's absurd, even to the point of turning himself off at the end. Yeah I really like his plays where he does this kind of thing.

[zezt]

,,,so, was Harold Pinter influenced by Beckett or was it the other way around. I first thought I was watching a Pinter play!!

[mranenome]

I bet that would be a good question for an english lit professor. I sure couldn't tell you.

Now I should probably go look for Harold Pinter's stuff. Wikipedia says he played the title role in Krapp's Last Tape a few years ago...

[ChrisAdams1991]

I agree paperdustvictim. The visionary spectacle in his relatively contextual plays (Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days) is becoming more and more of a theoretical statement. His aesthetic seems to divorce itself from any identifiable representation of circulariy (time's repetition, redundancy of language, discourse defining existence) in favour of a visionary spectacle that refuses to be classified spectacle.

[Mazurka1001]

@zezt You got to be kidding ? ? Harold Pinter influenced Becket ? What Harold PInter.

[paperdustvictim]

the later works of samuel beckett seems not of the type of absurdist theatre, in which his early theatre form where, although the philosophy of absurdism or rather circularity persevere,  the style is rather different... does anyone agree?

[Epexode]

That was great, thanks for the upload.

It is possible with youtube to make part 2 follow automatically part 1 (I don't know how though).

[dekionplexis]

This really is a masterpiece. Reminds me of Potter's 'Cold Lazarus/Karaoke'. Though I realise this piece pre-dates it.

Love Beckett's minimal use of language and repetition, it's poetic.

[KapitanoUK]

The Theatre of Cruelty was Antonine Artaud's project in the 1920s and 30s.

The Theatre of the Absurd was a movement of the 40s - 60s, including Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov and NF Simpson.

Pinter was influenced by Beckett.

[zezt]

Pinter was part of the Theatre of the Cruel--if i remember right. And his style of writing plays is like that. Very minimal and menacing