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1 { Pair work Who? What? Where? Improvise one minute of conversation

2 { Perform With the alphabet

3 { Tell a story To your partner of something that happened to you yesterday

4 { Tell it again To us, using gibberish

5 { Gibberish Is there meaning in nonsense ?

6 { ABSURDISM What does this mean to you?

7 { ABSURDISM Term first coined in 1942 by Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus First used to describe theatre in 1960 by Martin Esslin

8 { Context Philosophicalhistorical

9 { Find a wall Any wall

10 { Sisyphus Who was this guy?

11 { ABSURDIST THEATRE Broad comedy Horrific tragic images Characters caught in hopeless situations Forced to do repetitive meaningless actions Dialogue of clichés Wordplay and nonsense Plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive Parody or dismissal of realism

12 { It is absurd to find any meaning in life Do you have a rock?

13 { Michael Cheval

14 { Devising Create an Absurdist piece

15 { Pick a random object

16 { Cliches Deconstruct it into nonsense

17 { HAPPY DAYS Do background research Make a prediction in your journal on how you think the technical elements will be done

18 { Watch DVD in class on Thursday; Write review of performance

19  What elements of Absurdism are in the script? In the technical elements?  What passes the acid test?  What’s the director’s intention? What’s Beckett’s intention?  What’s the actor/audience relationship?  What aspects of this performance would you ADOPT into your theater practice?  ADAPT into your theater practice?  REJECT in your theater practice?  Does EVERYTHING have to be literal for the audience? What happens when EVERYTHING is METAPHORICAL? How does this change the actor/audience relationship?

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