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Absurdity is life's blood

Theatre 101 “The absurd is defined as lacking purpose or goal.” This lecture is really good though. I always wanted to know why actors do like weird things on stage

My Thoughts on Beckett's Footfalls and Neither at the Staatsoper im Schillertheater

Samuel Beckett's works come to life in this eerie modern opera. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.

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You're on earth. There's no cure for that #SamuelBeckett

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better #SamuelBeckett

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Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself in the end #SamuelBeckett

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All #poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer #SamuelBeckett

On the Necessity of Sucking Stones

I took advantage of being at the seaside to lay in a store of sucking-stones. They were pebbles but I call them stones. Yes, on this occasion I laid in a considerable