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

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5 жыл бұрын

Get ready to get weird. Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the Theater of the Absurd, a 1950s theatrical reaction to the dire world events of the 1940s. You'll learn about Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, and the theatrical movement that left us all Waiting for Godot.
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@km1dash6 5 жыл бұрын

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

@kitthornton2336 5 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

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

@JinJinDoe 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@hassansolo6577 4 жыл бұрын

Hello. Can you send me that paper please ?

@phantomstrider 5 жыл бұрын

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

@tombrady9687 5 жыл бұрын

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

@muggedinmadrid 5 жыл бұрын

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

@pashkies 4 жыл бұрын

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 :)

@IXPrometheusXI 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@samanthalewis9782 5 жыл бұрын

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

@nechma13 5 жыл бұрын

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

@nechma13 5 жыл бұрын

Every lawl made me crack up

@Kerri36982 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Nixitur 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@TashtheStarCrossedStitcher 5 жыл бұрын

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 :)

@mollyrose3985 5 жыл бұрын

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

@supernautistaken 5 жыл бұрын

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

@andreimoga7813 5 жыл бұрын

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

@MsRainingDays 5 жыл бұрын

IonescO totusi

@christaleblanc2748 4 жыл бұрын

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

@nursenaaltindal726 5 жыл бұрын

This video was reaaalllyy helplful. Thank you!

@kevinm9191 5 жыл бұрын

ANOTHER AMAZING VIDEO!!

@Squieon 5 жыл бұрын

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

@SunitaSMukhi-cs2je 4 жыл бұрын

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

@johnlarson111 5 жыл бұрын

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

@Dayglodaydreams 5 жыл бұрын

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

@camiloiribarren1450 5 жыл бұрын

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

@CoffeebreakX2 4 жыл бұрын

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

@raffaelesalerno4029 5 жыл бұрын

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!!!! :-)

@kevinm9191 5 жыл бұрын

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

@kevinm9191 5 жыл бұрын

I'm your biggest fan too!

@JimNichols4 4 жыл бұрын

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

@fearfifofum4650 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@fishynighcorelover8988 5 жыл бұрын

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

@rhymebean7249 4 жыл бұрын

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

@emilyniedbala 5 жыл бұрын

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

@lincolnnoronha4128 5 жыл бұрын

The first play I watched was Godot. Its awesome.

@niviamaria6208 5 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@PatrickAllenNL 5 жыл бұрын

This season goes on forever

@geoffreywinn4031 5 жыл бұрын

Educational!

@Beryllahawk 5 жыл бұрын

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

@unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome 👍🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@carlosdominguez3133 5 жыл бұрын

This channel is a carry for my history classes

@Misseggy24 5 жыл бұрын

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

@jennifercolebrook 5 жыл бұрын

hi do you have a reference list i can look at to use in my essay

@h.squidward4402 4 жыл бұрын

Watching it right before my exam

@michael_leclezio Жыл бұрын

The "lols"! hahaha. Brillant.

@ChessMasteryOfficial 5 жыл бұрын

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

@JaimeNyx15 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Carl. :)

@nickfitch2028 5 жыл бұрын

When you have to write a paper about Ionesco and crash course coms in clutch...

@michaelmichael3499 5 жыл бұрын

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

@BrianHutzellMusic 5 жыл бұрын

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

@violetstellanova4470 4 жыл бұрын

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

@RangerRuby 5 жыл бұрын

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

@aromaroma4887 4 жыл бұрын

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

@zaraha6860 5 жыл бұрын

1:46 lol

@allertonoff4 5 жыл бұрын

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

@michael_leclezio Жыл бұрын

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

@diegomoreno5927 5 жыл бұрын

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

@theelectricant98 4 жыл бұрын

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

@sagarikaborar.8310 4 жыл бұрын

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

@hindicartoonforkids7.3mvie3 5 жыл бұрын

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

@melani3149 5 жыл бұрын

im 20 seconds in and laughing way too hard

@eldramaking 5 жыл бұрын

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

@thebeatisdead 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@vrixphillips 5 жыл бұрын

yaaaaaaay genet~

@simonstans381 5 жыл бұрын

How do you make the animated portions of this video?

@Juansonos 5 жыл бұрын

The animated parts are done by Thought Café

@mojosbigsticks 5 жыл бұрын

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

@fionafiona1146 5 жыл бұрын

I am dissatisfied and hope to be questioning!

@ondrejpaska862 5 жыл бұрын

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

@Smapdi_Flaffermann 5 жыл бұрын

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...

@171QA 5 жыл бұрын

I have a copy of Waiting For Godot.

@Scufflegrit 5 жыл бұрын

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

@diegomoreno5927 5 жыл бұрын

It is still quiet popular

@tasinyousufgmailcom 5 жыл бұрын

Can you guys make a video about plasma?

@yangashi 5 жыл бұрын

lol

@sagarikaborar.8310 4 жыл бұрын

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

@qiuyushi2752 5 жыл бұрын

There needs to be crash course geology

@leonardo9259 5 жыл бұрын

Chom choms

@tippersfunnyworld4795 4 жыл бұрын

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

@lacybookworm5039 5 жыл бұрын

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

@bsku0765 5 жыл бұрын

I love godot

@lejoueur 5 жыл бұрын

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

@adam850 5 жыл бұрын

No on-screen credits. Was this an oversight?

@jasonsgroovemachine 6 ай бұрын

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

@SaiyanHeretic 5 жыл бұрын

7:48 John Madden John Madden John Madden

@Orinfoo 5 жыл бұрын

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?

@ms.rstake_1211 5 жыл бұрын

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

@ms.rstake_1211 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could give CC $10,000. 😔

@Themistocles1993 5 жыл бұрын

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

@SunriseFireberry 5 жыл бұрын

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

@ihaveasticknmyi 5 жыл бұрын

Lawl.

@Dayglodaydreams 5 жыл бұрын

"Yay, intellectuals"!

@tomaszstefaniuk9449 4 жыл бұрын

Albert... Kamoo? Reeeeally?

@DefaultSeaTurtle 5 жыл бұрын

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

@Marco_Onyxheart 5 жыл бұрын

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

@naethavenir9422 4 жыл бұрын

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 :|

@PatrickAllenNL 5 жыл бұрын

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

@robertpalumbo9089 5 жыл бұрын

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

@edo9k 4 жыл бұрын

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

@ferociousmaliciousghost 5 жыл бұрын

How absurd.

@mr51406 5 жыл бұрын

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.