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Midterm Flashcards

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Joseph Campbell Quote

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“The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become…”

  • Book = Hero with a 1000 faces
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Big 3 Questions

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“Who am i”
“What is the meaning of life”
“What purpose do i have”

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Socrates Beliefs

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The purpose of human life was personal and spiritual growth

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Aristotle Quote

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“The purpose of art is to figure out the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality which does not appear in there external outlines”

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Quest

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A Long, arduous search for something, the hero embarks on this
- A better life
- to find one’s self
- the meaning of love
- run away from troubles
- The hero’s search of self, to discover meaning…
in so doing return to his community a changed person

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Origin of Theatre

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  1. Ritual
    - Man’s attempt to control the unknowable forces of the universe through highly refined formalized repetition.
  2. Human Instinct
    - mans human instinct to play, to imitate, to minnie
  3. Storytelling
    - mans innate and strong desire to tell stories
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The purpose of theatre

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  1. To educate
    - stress the dignity of humanity and human spirit
    - examine individual, religious and secular values
    - explore civic freedom and responsibility.
  2. To entertain or to divert our minds
    - What not to do (instructive)
    - mock, make fun of (satire)
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Thich Nhat hanh

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Vietnamese buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet, peace activist.
“When you wash the dishes wash the dishes” - miracle of mindfulness
MEANS - you should be in that moment focuses on what is happening within that moment.

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Define Theatre

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  • the performer must be live
  • it must be presented before a live audience (shared space)
  • it must be a representation of “humans” in actions
  • it must be repeatable with infinite variation
  • actors pretending to be someone else.
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6 elements of Theatre

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  • Plot
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Diction
  • Song
  • Spectacle
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Plot is composed of..

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  1. Exposition
  2. Inciting Incident
  3. Complication
  4. Crisis
  5. Climax
  6. Denouement
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Exposition

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The introduction to the world of the play, the characters, the setting, and the story

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Inciting Incident

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Opposing forces

  • Man vs man
  • Man vs himself
  • Man vs nature
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Complication

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When events alter the course of the action of the play or film or television show
- Good to bad, bad to worse, bad to good

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Crisis

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Peak/Point of highest emotional intensity; final unfolding of action
- Moment is upon the hero

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Climax

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The reversal of the hero’s future; and recognition of his flaw, the old system can no longer be maintained

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Denouement

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A new understanding and a return to balance

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4 elements of character

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  1. Physical - judging a book by its cover
  2. Social - how they see themselves in the world
  3. Psychological - where they fit into society
  4. Moral - what are their values.
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Thought

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(THEME)
The ideas that govern the world of this particular play
- What is the play about?
- Plot + Character =

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Diction

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The the speech of the characters or language of the play/film

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Music

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All auditory material other than the actors voice

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Spectacle

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All the visual aspects of the dramatic event - everything you see

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Define generes

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categories or types of drama/performances

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Types of generes

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Tragedy
Comedy
Musical
(burlesque)

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Tragedy

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  • a serious drama that takes a thoughtful sober attitude towards ts subject matter
  • it asks serious questions about the human condition
  • a common theme for tragedy is the notion of “free will” to chose ones fate.
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Jean Paul Sarte Quote

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“we are condemned to be free”

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Comedy

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A dramatic work that is light and often humorous that usually contains a happy resolution of events

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Characteristics of Comedy

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  1. Suspension of natural laws
  2. Contrast between the individual and society
  3. A comic premise
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Characteristics of Comedy

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  1. Suspension of natural laws
    - - the pain is not so much physical as it is personal, emotional, psychological (Schadenfreude)
  2. Contrast between the individual and society
    - - comedy is a social corrective and teaches you what not to do
  3. A comic premise
    - - an idea of concept that turns the accepted notion of things upside down
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Types of comedy

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Situation Comedy
Farce
Satire
Musical 
Ballad
Anthem
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Situation Comedy

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The character finds themselves in a situation that produces comic effect (fish out of water)

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Farce

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Exaggerated, physical humor, no intellectual pretense, just pure silliness

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Satire

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Comedy used to attack evil or foolishness, to mock or make fun of, particularly powerful institutions or people

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Musical

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A narrative interspersed with music and lyrics, typically designed to advance the plot or develop character

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Ballad

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A simple narrative set to music that gives us a window into the character’s state of mind

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Anthem

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A song of praise, devotion, or patriotism

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Soliloquy

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speaking one’s thoughts aloud when they are by themselves.

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Music and Lyrics creates…

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  • An emotional appeal that pulls at our hearts.
  • a language that indicates how we should feel at a particular moment
  • gives “poetic” voice to bottled up emotions
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Schadenfreude

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Take pleasure in other peoples pain

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Horizon of expedition

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“Every movie you have an expectation”

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Theatrical

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A selection of events; a distillation of a moment that like theatre, is:

  • Events condensed and thus heightened
  • Artificial (to mimic, as in symbolic)
  • Exaggerated display/exhibition
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Literature of Drama

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Or its performance, is a manual for living.

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Agon

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struggle, battle, The issue between the protagonist and the antagonist.

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Theatre illustrates

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by doing we identify with the Hero because we share many of the values of the Hero of any given action

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Difference between theater and film?

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Audience is involved

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Theater can only be performed on a traditional stage?

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False

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Aesthetic distance

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the separation of audience member from the performance or art work to experience its aesthetic qualities.

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Willing suspension of disbelief

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The audience desire to believe in the reality of what is happening onstage.

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Agent

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Someone who acts own behalf or on behalf of someone else

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Types of Theatre

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Regional Theatres - permanent, professional, nonprofit theatres offering first-class productions to their audiences.
Community theatres - Semi Professional and experienced amateur groups that present plays that appeal to their specific audiences.
Site Specific - theatre presented in a nontraditional setting so that the chosen environment helps illuminate the text.
Performance art - most often refers to a solo performance created by the performer but also can be a work that mixes visual arts, dance, film or music.

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Characteristics of art

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Literary - novels, short stories, poetry
Visual - painting, sculpture, architecture and photography + film
Performing - theatre, dance, opera, and music + film

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Spatial Art VS Temporal art

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spatial - visual arts are spatial, they exist in space.

Temporal - performing .moves through time (music)

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Elements of Theatre

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Audience
Performers
Script/text 
Director 
Theatre space 
Design elements (scenery, costume, lighting and sound)
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How does the audience participate ?

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Vicariously, through the mind and heart.

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Critic

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Someone who observes a production and then analyzes and comments on it

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Reviewer

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A type of critic who reports on a production and gives a brief opinion about whether or not it is worth seeing.

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Dramaturg

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the individual works on literary and historical issues with members of the artistic team mounting a theatre production

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Nonmediated or Live Theatre

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Theatre that is not observed through an electronic medium.

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Global VS Multicultural theatre

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global - theatre from around the world

Multicultural - Diversity?

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Theatrical

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A selection of events; a distillation of a moment that like theatre, is:

  • Events condensed and thus heightened
  • Artificial (to mimic, as in symbolic)
  • Exaggerated display/exhibition
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Six aspects of a script

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  1. selecting the specific subject of the play
  2. determining focus .
  3. establishing purpose
  4. developing dramatic structure
  5. creating dramatic characters
  6. establishing point of view
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Dramatic Structure

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Plot
Action
Conflict
Strong opposed Forces

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Plot

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As distinct from tstory, the patterned arrangement in a drama of events and characters, with incidents selected and arranged for maximum dramatic impact.

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Action

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a sequence of events linked by a cause and effect, with a beginning, middle, and end.

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Conflict

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tension between two or more characters that leads to crisis or a climax, a fundamental struggle or imbalance

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Strong Opposed Forces

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People in the conflict of the pay are determined to achieve their goals, they are powerful adversaries for one another

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Sequence in Dramatic Structure

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Opening Scene - starts action, sets tone.
Obstacles and Complications - O: delay achieving goal. C: new force that creates a new balance of power and entails a delay into reaching the climax.
Crisis/Climax- point when action reaches an important confrontation, leading to final crisis which is the climax, turning point

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Two forms of structure

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Climactic - there are few scenes, a short time passes, there are few locales, and the action begins chronologically close to the climax
episodic - there are many scenes, taking place over a considerable period of time in a number of locations, usually has subplots.

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exposition

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imparting of information necessary for an understanding of the story but not covered by the action onstage, events from the past, occurring outside the play,

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Deus ex machina

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“god from a machine” a resolution device in classic greek drama, intervention of supernatural forces to save the action from its logical conclusion.

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Subplot

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Secondary plot that reinforces or runs parallel to the major plot in an episodic play.

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Dialogue

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conversation between characters in a play

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Types of Dramatic Characters

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Extraordinary characters - larger than life
Representative - embody characteristics that represent the entire group
Stock - One outstanding trait. (stereotypes)
Dominate Trait - one trait that overshadows all others and controls the character.
Minor characters, narrators, chorus, nonhuman characters.

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Commedia dell’arte

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form of comic theatre, dialogue was improvised around a loose scenario calling for a set of stock characters.

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Protagonist VS anatagonist

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principal character in a play, the one whom that drama is about.
opponent of the protagonist in a drama.

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Tragedy

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Dramatic form involving serious actions of universal significance and with important moral and philosophical implications, usually with an unhappy ending.

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Heroic Drama

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Serious but basically optimistic drama written in verse with noble characters in extreme situations or unusual adventures.

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Bourgeois or domestic drama

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drama dealing with problems of middle and lower class characters. Serious and comic.

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Melodrama

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emphasized action and spectacular effects and also used music to underscore the action, had stock characters and clearly defined villians and heros.

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Tragicomedy

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play having tragic themes and noble characters but a happy ending.

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Theatre of the absurd

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sense of absurdity and futility of human existence through the dramatic techniques they employ.

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