The shortest play by Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett:-

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. He wrote in both English and French.

Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic, black comedy . He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd".

Beckett's career as a writer can be roughly divided into three periods.

1. Early works

2. Middle period

3. Late period

Early work in 'more Pricks than kicks' , Middle period in 'Waiting for Godot', 

Late period in ' Breath'.

About 'Breath play':-

Breath is short story writer by Samuel Beckett . He is notably short stage work.

Breath is an unusually brief work. It's length can be estimated from Beckett detailed instructions in the script to be about 35 seconds.

In play pattern:-

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.

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 about five seconds.

Curtain Down.

See the common Image created story:-

1. Darkness:-

2. light:-

3. Some Dust:-

4. Some sound:-

Better understanding for see some videos:-

1.video:- Breath by Damien Hirst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K25ZpAQ4-4M

In this video first see Darkness , some sound like horror , not speak properly this sound . Some Dust see like hospital thing, medicine , bed etc.. and again darkness finish video.

2.video:- Breath - Samuel Beckett by Liana De Jourdan.

https://youtu.be/MWwyxQIgRs0

In this video see the darkness or see Dust like every types of fruit or kittens thing. Or some type of Sound link person , may be cow or animal not fix and at last again darkess or video finish.

3. Video:- National Theatre School First Year Technical Production Class Project, Production of Samuel Beckett's play Breath.

https://youtu.be/1rZ8xParVmE

In this video see the darkness and Dust like not properly see which type but every types and see cry may be person or animal or child sound and sound hear may be 2 3 times and again 2 3 times see darknees or at last video finish.

4. Samuel Beckett's Breath ( Modern internationa ).

https://youtu.be/Aylnla3-WKE?t=157

In this video see the darkness with sound some ghost sound some wheel sound see the cloud or teddy's or many people , book , phone , water or some pic some light  many thing not  properly count at last hear some sound and water and darkness Finally video closed.

This short story in use Samuel Beckett both think like meaninglessness or individual existence.

Reading resources:-


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breath_(play)
https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/interpretation-challenge-breath.html?m=1

Thank you for watching or reading....