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* Ahart, Part 3, pp. 119- "Waiting for Godot" Analysis: Go.dot UAF
Reading in class : tragicomedy in 2 actsgenre : comedy + tragedy ) [ but NOT drama ? ]
Beckett' Style (minimalism) + Absurd (Philosophy -- Existentialism )
Audience as a partner, dialogue with characters only through them! Public do not answer = godot-like. They are Godot...
How to make it into METHOD?
Hero = Audience.
Finally, the great theatre secret is reveled.
... images : maze, wall, crossroad...
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Lesson 4: Beckett in directing class
Go.dot'06 in groups.yahoo.com/group/vtheatre
A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
That holy dream - that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?
and monologues to stage from HAMLET
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Return to overview of "director's functions": transition to Part 2. Directing Actors
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Godot, p.1
A
country
road
. A
tree
. Evening.
Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again.
As before.
Enter Vladimir.
ESTRAGON:
(giving up again ).
Nothing to be done.
Beckett Pages and Godot'06 :
Concept (Genre ) -- playwright directions.
Characters -- preparations for working with actors.
Set Ideas (according to Beckett) : places = symbols
Character as Idea (Tragic and Comic Hero).
Scenes in class : ... Menagerie (7), Gogot (Ending), Hamlet (3.2?)
floor plan (directing space).
spring 2007
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