1. Actor’s Studio – April 8 th, 2013

2. ABSURDISM Let’s face it… it’s just plain weird.

3. ABUSRDISM Like…. SUPER weird

4.  It is a search out of chaos because we can’t find our way.  A conflict between human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life

5.  Human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down  Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence.

6.  CHAOS  UNCERTAINTY

7.  Existentialism  No god, no morals  We develop our own path

8. Post WWII Germany - 1950s What do you think led the Germans to create this philosophy? Why did they feel it necessary to create theatre like this?

9. Do you think Theatre of the Absurd was well received by audiences? What did the typical theatre goers expect from an evening at the theatre?

10.  The random, lack of connection between actions, objects and words.  The playfulness between the actors in being able to convey this randomness.

11.  Say goodbye to the unities and the “well- made play”  NOTHING MAKES SENSE

12.  Samuel Beckett  Waiting for Godot (1948) ▪ The futility of waiting for something that will never come  Edward Albee  The Zoo Story (1958)  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)

13.  Tom Stoppard  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)  Eugene Ionesco  The Lesson 1951 ▪ Prof. deals with monotonies of language while teaching others