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This is evident in the plays “ Waiting for Godot” by Samual Beckett, ”Zoo Story” by Edward Albee and “The Bald Prima Donna” by Eugene Ionesco. ...
“ Waiting for Godot” by Samual Beckett is particularly clever at highlighting human interactions and demonstrating to its audience characters alienated from society by leading an alternative, irregular and illogical way of life. The play “ Waiting for Godot” can be perceived by some as a parable for human kind waiting focusing on the idea of the suffrage of being. ...
“ Waiting for Godot” deals with two protagonists – Vladimir and Estragon who meet everyday near a tree that sometimes has leaves and sometimes does not. ...
In “ Waiting for Godot” the characters sit waiting for someone to come and explain their interminable existence. This personage is referred to as “Godot” and has been understood by many to be the thing that many people wait for, in some instances a saviour. ... ”
(Lucky looks long at Estragon)
In performance the lack of feeling, movement and no traditional plot confirms to the audience that human interactions in “Waiting for Godot” are indeed alienating, isolating and for an audience confronting. ... ”
The play is much more conventional that “ Waiting for Godot” though its discord between action and dialogue makes the play extremely bizarre and unique. ...
The Absurdist dramas “ Waiting for Godot” by Samual Becket, “ Zoo Story” by Edward Albee and “ The Bald Prima Donna” By Eugene Ionesco are all unconventional theatres of situation rather than theatres of sequential events.
Approximate Word count = 2538
Approximate Pages = 10.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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