The Absurd Theatre

The absurd theatre was born in the Second World War, where the people needs an aid to avoid the situation of a destroyed world, so a group of writers started to write about this. The group was composed of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter, where through their work they tried to express the feelings in the god universe where the human existence don’t have signification if there aren’t communication. Their work is considered as a reaction in front of the traditional concepts of the occidental theatre. Their influence in the posterior dramaturgy, overcoat in those that had followed what they had done in the tradition of the absurd, was also notable as their prose impact.

The construction and the argument was logic so they show the irrationality and the illogical of the discourse.

The Absurd theatre have the last conclusion in the work of Beckett titled “Breathing”(1970) that consist only in the silence.

One of the principal preoccupation of the absurd theatre is to show the occult reality that is under the idea of felicity and comfort that kind of live of the society burgess. Each play create their own implacable models of intern logic, sometimes sad(as the play of Beckett “Waiting for Godot”, 1952) pathetic ( also in Beckett “Endgame”, 1957) agonising ( in the play of Ionesco “The Lesson”, 1950), and also infinite kinds. All of them have in commune the presentation of one grotesque reality.(1) The questionnaire of the referents, alienated inside and outside of the scenery, affect to three of the fundamental areas: the character( that can change the sex, personality or status), the plot (that sometimes is circular, doesn’t go to anywhere and repulse any aesthetic resolution) and the objects ( that can proliferate until the expulsion of one character, as in the play of Ionesco).

The Absurd theatre is referring to the drama literature that has appeared in the country of the 40^th and beginnings of the 50^th.

Their roots come from the plays of the “allegoric morality” of the Middle Age and in the sacramental autos ( allegoric religious drama) of the Spanish baroque, in the literature of no-sense from authors like Lewis Carrol, Strindberg, James Joyce and Franz Kafka, in the grotesque drama of Alfred Jarry. Beckett is related with the Absurd theatre because the tragedy and the comedy crash in one sad illustration of the human condition and the absurdity of the existence. The Absurd dramatic it’s an investigator who the order, freedom, justice, psychology and the language there are only approximations to an ambiguity and disappointing reality. The Absurd drama also is characteristic is that their characters want to express and they can’t get it. The initial situation is that the kind of they are situated in the scenery is optima to express their sentiments and there is based in the visual representation. The objects, accessories and the decoration only acquired an extraordinary importance.

In one hand there are few writers that want the name of absurd, reality the only authors that we considerate authentic representative of the absurd theatre are those that their plays motive the denomination.(2)

The Absurd theatre does a social critic, it want to put in question a meanness society. This is the most easy accessible message and wherefore the most known of the Absurd theatre, but is not of course the most essential or meaningful.

As in the Greek old tragedy, the Absurd theatre is an intent to do the public more conscious of the precarious and mysterious situation of the man in the universe. The Absurd theatre express precisely the absent of the accepts values of cosmic systems, the Absurd theatre is in the middle of the comic and tragic and also combines the laugh and horror.

It expose the dream of the modern man to match in the world that he live. Try to expose he the human condition as really is, to released him of his illusions, that have condennate him to the nonconformity and the disappointment.

Then the man dignity consisted in his ability of front the reality, accept without panic, illusions and to laugh of it.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Enciclopedia encarta

http://vzone.virgin.net/numb.world/rhino.absurd.htm

http://www-ni.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2004/enero/17/literaria/kiobionice/

http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Teatro_del_absurdo

http://mipunto.com/temas/01/teatro.html

CUOTATIONS:

(1) There are some adjectives to explain the plays , so I had to mention that I had imitated it from a literary column.

(2) All the information of this paragraph is recopilated from a several web pages about this thematic.