Interpretation challenge on Breath

 Interpretation challenge on Breath

                         - by Samuel Beckett

The Shortest Play by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both English and French.

Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theater of the Absurd."^[3]

Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."^[4] He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.

• The script of the play:-

CURTAIN UP:

1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.

2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.

3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds.

CURTAIN DOWN...

1 ) Breath by Damien Hirst

                     In this video we can see this overlaid medicine rubbish and sounds of some  breath may be it mean if we have lot of medicine or ultimately meaning we have solution of our ill-health even death is immoral truth for everyone. At last breath medicine become rubbish, it is only time passing solution.

2)  Breath by Liana De Jordan

                    In this video clip or movie I found so many types of fruits and vegetable. Fruit connected with richness, overindulgence and temptation and earthly pleasure. Another I can say It's connected with Myth. Sometime fruit ride us to luxurious life style which get during our life from nature but human being still never satisfied.

4) Samuel Beckett’s play Breath

                     This video start with nature and how nature change looks. And I can see as like someone mind and mind visual everything  this is so intense, when there are no words everything turns to depend on our own vision and how we see things. May be it was a sad for everyone because time running as like uncountable speed and life is like just two minutes is so sad, I guess that's how life is felt, just like two minutes. And then the objects, which I cannot relate them to anything but to the past, and to death, so we can just seen our blurred memory of life.  Thousands of belongings that talks by themselves about people that don't exist anymore. So sad, but this video is a strongly appealing us. And I can say that this video is a fantastic modern interpretation.

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