Theatre of the Absurd Reasearch
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco was born on November 26, 1909 in slatina Romania , The next year his family moved to paris where he lived until 19255. His parents were divorced and he returned to Romania with his father in 1928. He studied French Literature and two years later he published his first article in the Zodiac review. In 1931 and 1934 he published a collection of essays and in 1938 he received a fellowship from the Romanian government to write a thesis on subject of death in modern french poetry.
He moved to paris and began his research then there was the German invasion so he relocated to Marseilles and then he moved back to paris five years later.
he learnt English at the age of 40 but wasn't able too, then and the decided to write his first play in 1948 which is called The Bald Soprano and it was staged on May 11 1950, at the theatre des Noctambules, under the directions of Nicolas Bataille. The second play, he wrote in 1951 is called The lesson.
A summary video the explained one of his plays called the Rhinoceros was ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKbiPi87w8U
And i liked this video below because it reminded me of what we had to do and i was able to understand the perspective of the Absurdism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPvzBSrN6XA
Martin Esslin
Eugene Ionesco was born on November 26, 1909 in slatina Romania , The next year his family moved to paris where he lived until 19255. His parents were divorced and he returned to Romania with his father in 1928. He studied French Literature and two years later he published his first article in the Zodiac review. In 1931 and 1934 he published a collection of essays and in 1938 he received a fellowship from the Romanian government to write a thesis on subject of death in modern french poetry.
He moved to paris and began his research then there was the German invasion so he relocated to Marseilles and then he moved back to paris five years later.
he learnt English at the age of 40 but wasn't able too, then and the decided to write his first play in 1948 which is called The Bald Soprano and it was staged on May 11 1950, at the theatre des Noctambules, under the directions of Nicolas Bataille. The second play, he wrote in 1951 is called The lesson.
A summary video the explained one of his plays called the Rhinoceros was ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKbiPi87w8U
And i liked this video below because it reminded me of what we had to do and i was able to understand the perspective of the Absurdism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPvzBSrN6XA
Martin Esslin
MARTIN ESSLIN was born in Budapest, Hungary on June 6, 1918. He moved to
Vienna with his family at a young age and grew up there, eventually majoring in
English and philosophy at the University of Vienna. He studied directing at the
Reinhardt Seminar of Dramatic Arts, but in 1938, the Nazi occupation of Austria forced him to flee
the country. He spent a year in Brussels before moving to England
were he was the head of BBC
Radio Drama from 1963 to 1977; he was also an author, Britain's leading
authority on post-war European drama and an important interpreter of the
Continental avant-garde theatre.
During his many years at the BBC, Esslin gained a reputation
for giving new British and Continental writers an airing on the radio. But he
achieved as much recognition as the author of two of the most influential books
dealing with the post-war theatre, Brecht: A Choice of Evils (1959) and The
Theatre of the Absurd (1962) - a term coined by Esslin.
this video helped me understand the idea f theatre of the Absurd more because it was broken down and explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFzVJuVnvrk
this video also made me understand the subtle messages and other people's opinion and views on Waiting for Beckett;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyjvYByB6vA&list=PLiKOVkV09iXjehc8SUxiRxnN_A2SmY0lZ
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