1. Loneliness and Emptiness Samuel Beckett- Happy Days
Connie Yen

2. Outline Samuel Beckett Theme- Loneliness and Emptiness
Approaches to directing
Outline

3. Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)
Irish avant-garde novelist, 
playwright, theatre director, poet.
Wrote in both English and French.
A bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy.
most influential writers of the 20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce
Key writers in the "Theatre of the Absurd". 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)

4. Loneliness and Emptiness
Strings of rituals.
Insecurity of being alone.
Wi”nn”ie and Wi”ll”ie.
Coupling.
Words are empty.
Loneliness and Emptiness

5. The Approaches to Directing
Beckett guides the players to “concrete, simple and exact actions”; his interventions are almost always “not on the side of subtlety but simplicity.” (Enoch Brater, 1975)
The Approaches to Directing

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