pinter Flashcards
Meg opening
“Is that you, Petey? {Pause] Petey, is that you? [Pause] Petey?
well-made play example
the deep blue sea rattigan 1952
waiting for godot
samuel beckett 1955 premiere in London
Aristotle influence
classical unities- action, time, place
catharsis
theatre of the absurd
martin esslin “tragic farces and farcical tragedies” that “give expression to some of the basic issues and problems of our age”
not teleological
theatre of cruelty
antonin artaud- purpose of theatre of cruelty conveys the “much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads.”
mccann meaningless
“I’m just all right once I know what I’m doing. When I know what I’m doing, I’m all right.”
meg to stan sexual
“I’ve had lovely afternoons in that room” whilst “(sensual, stroking his arm)”
esslin Stan to Meg
communication “difficult, if not impossible”
Stan and Meg asking about the two men
Meg “sitting” Stanley “rises and walks to the window”
comedy and menace
p’s comedy “is about the same thing as his scenes of terror, the inability to make contact”
Meg Esslin
“meg grotesquely playing the belle of the ball”
meg mother
Darlington “thwarted maternity”
meg and stan mother son
Esslin “Meg treats him with a maternity so stifling as to be incestuous”
20th c fragmentation
“to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” adorno philosopher
