THEATER 103I Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lyft, Mccarthyism
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Represents an american strain of absurdist theater. Definition: the artistic response to grotesque/distorted horrors of world war 2, the idea of nihilism/pessimism can be found in these works. political yet subtextual response to. Mood is more important than plot and action not a conscious or deliberate movement, it"s used to refer to key writers from 1950s - 1960s, these playwrights expressed the view that the universe is cold, hostile, irrational, humans are helpless, comical, useless - especially human relationships and language. Characters are not realistic but instead symbolic. Setting is strange and unrecognizable but also universal. our lens tell us that the world isn"t distorted but rather insane, irrational, illogical. Madness is objective, not subjective for these plays. A messenger tells them that godot won"t be coming today but he"ll surely come tom so they continue to wait but godot never arrives.
