Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd: Crash Course Theater #45

[@km1dash6]

My favorite absurdist work of fiction is Spongebob Squarepants. The early seasons of that show were a true masterpiece.

[@JinJinDoe]

Love Beckett's Waiting for Godot, I wrote a paper on it. I found it amazing how in this play of nothingness I could find a mirror of my relationship. Truly outstanding when a piece of art resonates with the viewer on a personal level.

[@حسين_بعاش]

Hello. Can you send me that paper please ?

[@IXPrometheusXI]

Omg dude I'm crying I am going THROUGH it at this exact moment and here's Mike rugnetta on PBS to teach me about theatre I had no idea he was doing this. I'm just delighted.

[@phantomstrider]

Grim, honest and beautiful. This particular analysis hit me pretty deep. Thanks for continuing to make these. Kudos.

[@tombrady9687]

You watch Crash Course, or were you just looking for The Avengers movie review

[@kitthornton2336]

I directed a production of "The Lesson" in a bar in front of an audience of drunks. It went over surprisingly well, with a notable moment. As the professor approached the student with the knife concealed behind his back, a voice from the back slurred, "Look aaaout, Missy! He's gotta kniiiiiiife!"

[@darthswagedorn]

"What do you have?" "A knife!" "nO!"

[@muggedinmadrid]

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.” ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

[@samanthalewis9782]

PERFECT timing. I just started a project on Samuel Beckett for my Play Analysis class at university. Thank you for making this series!

[@supernautistaken]

I think I enjoyed watching you talk about those plays more than I would enjoy actually watching the plays

[@pashkies]

Gentle hint from a french speaker: when Mr Martin says "beaux-arts" it's pronounced "boh zart" because of liaison, so it would phonetically fit the rest of the words that are being said that sound similar :)

[@Kerri36982]

I studied this in college and performed in plays by Ionesco (The Leader & The Bald Soprano) and Beckett (Waiting For Godot). Great days and still love this form of theatre.

[@nechma13]

Every lawl made me crack up

[@nechma13]

Beckett,Ionesco, satre, brecht my absurd little heart is content

[@mollyrose3985]

I’ve been waiting this whole series to finally get to broadway I’m so excited!!

[@TashtheStarCrossedStitcher]

Waiting for Godot is my favourite play. I saw a film of it years ago and thought it was a unique work. Now I'm going to seek out all of these other Absurdists. Thanks Mike :)

[@andreimoga7813]

I am a simple Romanian. I see Ionescu, I click.

[@MsRainingDays]

IonescO totusi

[@Nixitur]

It's hard to surpass The Bald Soprano, but one of my favorite Ionesco plays is The New Tenant. It's fairly short, punchy, and just really, really funny. We also performed that one in school, and just dragging out basically all the props that had accumulated since the theater club had been established was a riot and a half. If I recall correctly, we even dragged out the racks of costumes from the back. Good times.

[@SunitaSMukhi-cs2je]

LOVE Rugnetta! Especially since we are in the new Absurd!

[@Dayglodaydreams]

I change my mind, this is the best CC yet.

[@christaleblanc2748]

Thank you for doing what my theatre history professor can't!!! You are saving my grade my good sir

[@fearfifofum4650]

I LOVE HOW YOU MADE BECKETT ACCESSIBLE TO THE LIKES OF MEANING NEEDY PEOPLE LIKE ME! For the first time ever, I understand why I dislike this genre, tho I do love Surrealism in art. Yes life is wacky, but I prefer art that always balances out pain or despair with hope. And when I want to confront my own illusions/saving lies, I turn to Buddhism, Ibsen, or remembering to let go cuz I’m not in control.

[@rhymebean7249]

I really wish he could talk about the chairs. I really adored the play.

[@CoffeebreakX2]

I love this so much! And could we get some citations in the description?

[@Squieon]

I'm looking forward to Theatre of the Oppressed and Augusto Boal!

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Time to hit the Franz Kafka era and do Catch 22. Thanks, Mike lol

[@BrianHutzellMusic]

I want to write a play which is a standard romantic farce, except that it would be in at least 5 or 6 different languages. Characters would speak different languages at different times, sometimes within the same sentence. The action would proceed as if the language barrier were not there, and none of the characters would ever acknowledge that different languages were being spoken. “what?..the buzzing?..yes” - Samuel Beckett

[@raffaelesalerno4029]

Hi Thank you for all your videos about theatre!! I have to do an exam at university about history and drammaturgy of theatre next 2 april, and you helped me a lot, your kind of talking and images help me a lot to remember!! Thanks!!!! :-) Byeeeeeee!!!! :-)

[@carlosdominguez3133]

This channel is a carry for my history classes

[@niviamaria6208]

Oh, I just adore the theater of the absurd. I HAVE to read Gianet!!!! I've already read En attendant Godot and Fin de Partie and La Canatrice Chauve! Thank you, Crash Course, that's very very interesting!

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

I could not get through Genet's 'The Balcony.' Talk about dense! Of the three big absurdists I've read. Eugene Ionesco seems to be the best one.

[@fishynighcorelover8988]

As a drama student,thanks! :) I'll send this to my classmates

[@emilyniedbala]

So excited for Broadway!!! This is what I’m here for haha

[@kevinm9191]

I hope they like this they are amazing and help so much!!

[@kevinm9191]

I'm your biggest fan too!

[@kevinm9191]

ANOTHER AMAZING VIDEO!!

[@lincolnnoronha4128]

The first play I watched was Godot. Its awesome.

[@PatrickAllenNL]

This season goes on forever

[@JimNichols4]

Delightful video and overview. Thank you. Perfect topic for covid-19 day to day pandemic survival --and dare I say... flourishing. 😷🙏

[@thebeatisdead]

The 1950s Absurd Theater: the 40s are over, the horror of WWII just happen, reality doesn't make sense so why should theater, theater isn't funny absurd like modern times but dark absurd because how can anything be lighthearted and funny with the heavy weight of death caused by WWII still looming over everyone's head.

[@johnlarson111]

I saw "the balcony " in the round at the charles street playhouse Boston Mass in 1967

[@michaelmichael3499]

Bam! a movement was born. So easy to start a movement.

[@Smapdi_Flaffermann]

We say that the world doesn't make any sense, but of course that really means that WE don't make any sense. Nature makes plenty of sense, but humans are the wild cards. We are capable of empathy, kindness and sympathy, but too often we are cruel, greedy, and just plain horrible to each other on a personal, institutional, and national level. If we were more predictably kind maybe we wouldn't have absurdism, but I think that would be a pretty fair trade...

[@ChessMasteryOfficial]

*Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~*

[@JaimeNyx15]

Thanks, Carl. :)

[@michael_leclezio]

The "lols"! hahaha. Brillant.

[@Misseggy24]

Solange will always have a special place in my heart after having slaved away over her monologue for my Yr 11 drama exams

[@h.squidward4402]

Watching it right before my exam

[@RangerRuby]

I used to think I appreciated theater... until Crash Course Theater!

[@violetstellanova4470]

I’m watching this because I’m playing the maid in my college’s production of “The Bald Soprano”.

[@acevuilton]

- Let go - Yeah, sure (They dont move)

[@nursenaaltindal726]

This video was reaaalllyy helplful. Thank you!

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@Beryllahawk]

Even my mother likes Waiting for Godot and she despises stage plays... Though she never articulated WHY she likes it. Hmmm.

[@michael_leclezio]

cup in noodles curtain! 🤣🤣 True to the genre! 🤣🤣..... Lol.

[@melani3149]

im 20 seconds in and laughing way too hard

[@theelectricant98]

Genet's political philosophy stuff is so good, one of the best radical writers from France imo

[@Orinfoo]

If we realize we are alone in a meaningless world & we develop this sense of freedom & relief then why aren’t we all happy in our absurdity? Or the the least, content?

[@zaraha6860]

1:46 lol

[@diegomoreno5927]

An U.S.A suburb would be the perfect setting for an absurd

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

Awesome 👍🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Scufflegrit]

If you haven’t read Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, give it a shot. It’s... sadly pertinent again these days.

[@ondrejpaska862]

Might mention Vaclav Havel, who wrote several absurdists plays and later became president of Czechoslovakia.

[@allertonoff4]

ahh, great stuff amigo, what a Treat ! =]

[@mojosbigsticks]

You say God-ot and I say God-Ot? Let's call the whole thing fish.

[@SaiyanHeretic]

7:48 John Madden John Madden John Madden

[@sagarikaborar.8310]

Please please make videos, covering the whole 5th semester syllabus for English honours students.

[@jasonsgroovemachine]

I was onboard till that opening. So... 23 seconds. Give or take.

[@lacybookworm5039]

Will you cover any non-western modern plays/playwrites??? ☕

[@qiuyushi2752]

There needs to be crash course geology

[@vrixphillips]

yaaaaaaay genet~

[@leonardo9259]

Chom choms

[@ms.rstake_1211]

I miss the subtitles. ...plus there's a mistake around 8:00.

[@ms.rstake_1211]

I wish I could give CC $10,000. 😔

[@aromaroma4887]

What was the resistance movement that beckett was part of it?

[@edo9k]

Are you sure this wasn't written by two AIs? @8:01

[@171QA]

I have a copy of Waiting For Godot.

[@mr51406]

1) You put up a “No Exit” sign without explanation... It’s a shame because that play (aka “In Camera”, “Huis Clos”) by Sartre is my favourite play of all time! 2) Genet: Actually I’ve always thought The Maids should be played by (gay) men. That’s how I read it. And Genet wants it to be played VERY subdued, not melodramatic (read the rather vulgar expression in his directions). 3) We did Ionesco in grade 8! Young people “get” absurd art better than “sensible” adults.

[@user-ct1nj2gt5x]

Can you guys make a video about plasma?

[@sagarikaborar.8310]

Can you please make a video of waiting for Godot as an absurd drama, comedy, tragic?

[@diegomoreno5927]

It is still quiet popular

[@fionafiona1146]

I am dissatisfied and hope to be questioning!

[@Themistocles1993]

I waited for that Godot joke for 44 episodes...

[@hindicartoonforkids7.3mvie3]

You are also Funny 😂 Tnx Sir 👍 I like those people who create Videos for study and Also joke.than That lecture become interesting as well as We don't feel burden...😍keep similing sir

[@adam850]

No on-screen credits. Was this an oversight?

[@lejoueur]

They recently staged /Waiting for Godot/ here at the University of Minnesota; they consulted the author. It's pronounced "God-oh" or "gawd-oh."

[@bsku0765]

I love godot

[@PatrickAllenNL]

This episode was....wait for it... *ABSURD*

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

Of course Godot wouldn't come to those two guys that were waiting for him. He was stuck in a courtroom.

[@Dayglodaydreams]

"Yay, intellectuals"!

[@DefaultSeaTurtle]

Choo Choo Choo Choo Choo Choo Choo Choo Choo Choo. Choo Choo.

[@willnash7907]

Beckett is great but Brecht is next level.

[@simonstans381]

How do you make the animated portions of this video?

[@Juansonos]

The animated parts are done by Thought Café

[@tippersfunnyworld4795]

this show is great.big fan.tipper has a puppet theater of the absurd. and has done godot.have a look.tell him what you think

[@naethavenir9422]

tfw you’re waiting for your friend to come over to play games but he never logs on and you and your friend are just :|

[@SunriseFireberry]

Wonder if CC Poetry will get 50 or near 50 episodes thoroughness? Maybe get a living poet to do it?

[@tomaszstefaniuk9449]

Albert... Kamoo? Reeeeally?

[@yangashi]

lol

[@ferociousmaliciousghost]

How absurd.

[@theomakotoko2524]

Picckkkleeee Riiiiiick

[@Rafman316]

They won’t be teaching this in schools

[@awizardintraining]

Is Stoppard considered absurdist?

[@robertpalumbo9089]

True story ...sitting on a bench by the road ..a cop drives up ..what are you doing ...i am waiting for gadauo.....drives off ...i wonder if he even knew what it was

[@gunnarradtke9372]

"lol!" "lol." "lol?"

[@sampaiosamps9930]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a great absurdist play.

[@pattiwilling6504]

Absurd that you misspelled Beckett's name in your video's title! SMH! I always enjoy your work, however.