Interpretation Challenge play Breath by Samuel Beckett

Interpretation Challenge play Breath by Samuel Beckett 



Samuel Barclay Beckett 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.
Thinking activity according to this link

https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/interpretation-challenge-breath.html

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

This is thirty-two seconds one play. But here video created various way.
My review on the video of the play-

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 we can see overlaid of fruits and vegetables, some of the fruits are jointed each other and some of our separate, it may be video suggest that fruits and vegetables are a contradiction between them and they both live in the same world. And we can connect human beings also because human lives like them we are attached to a number of people even we are alone nobody with us.



3) National Theatre school first year
Technical production class project,
Production of Samuel Beckett’s play Breath


This video started with darkness then through the light we can see rubbish and listen to some of the weird crying voice, maybe it means that living things exist and end. Life and death concept showed in the  shown light on and listen weird voice life that is single of life journey start and when light off again weird voice and darkness it is suggest death. May be this video suggests that how life is nothing but waiting for death.

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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