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

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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 лет назад

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

@kitthornton2336 5 лет назад

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 года назад

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

@JinJinDoe 5 лет назад

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 года назад

Hello. Can you send me that paper please ?

@phantomstrider 5 лет назад

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

@tombrady9687 5 лет назад

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

@muggedinmadrid 5 лет назад

“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 года назад

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 года назад

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.

@nechma13 5 лет назад

Every lawl made me crack up

@samanthalewis9782 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

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

@Nixitur 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

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 лет назад

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

@Kerri36982 5 лет назад

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.

@supernautistaken 5 лет назад

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

@andreimoga7813 5 лет назад

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

@MsRainingDays 5 лет назад

IonescO totusi

@CoffeebreakX2 4 года назад

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

@christaleblanc2748 4 года назад

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

@kevinm9191 5 лет назад

ANOTHER AMAZING VIDEO!!

@Dayglodaydreams 5 лет назад

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

@nursenaaltindal726 5 лет назад

This video was reaaalllyy helplful. Thank you!

@SunitaSMukhi-cs2je 4 года назад

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

@raffaelesalerno4029 5 лет назад

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!!!! :-)

@emilyniedbala 5 лет назад

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

@Squieon 5 лет назад

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

@kevinm9191 5 лет назад

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

@kevinm9191 5 лет назад

I'm your biggest fan too!

@JimNichols4 4 года назад

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

@fearfifofum4650 5 лет назад

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.

@niviamaria6208 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

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.

@rhymebean7249 4 года назад

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

@fishynighcorelover8988 5 лет назад

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

@lincolnnoronha4128 5 лет назад

The first play I watched was Godot. Its awesome.

@michael_leclezio Год назад

The "lols"! hahaha. Brillant.

@PatrickAllenNL 5 лет назад

This season goes on forever

@geoffreywinn4031 5 лет назад

Educational!

@unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 лет назад

Awesome 👍🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@camiloiribarren1450 5 лет назад

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

@johnlarson111 5 лет назад

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

@Beryllahawk 5 лет назад

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

@michaelmichael3499 5 лет назад

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

@Misseggy24 5 лет назад

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 4 года назад

Watching it right before my exam

@ChessMasteryOfficial 5 лет назад

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

@JaimeNyx15 5 лет назад

Thanks, Carl. :)

@carlosdominguez3133 5 лет назад

This channel is a carry for my history classes

@BrianHutzellMusic 5 лет назад

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

@nickfitch2028 5 лет назад

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

@violetstellanova4470 4 года назад

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

@melani3149 5 лет назад

im 20 seconds in and laughing way too hard

@zaraha6860 5 лет назад

1:46 lol

@michael_leclezio Год назад

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

@hindicartoonforkids7.3mvie3 5 лет назад

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

@jennifercolebrook 5 лет назад

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

@allertonoff4 5 лет назад

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

@Smapdi_Flaffermann 5 лет назад

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...

@RangerRuby 5 лет назад

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

@theelectricant98 4 года назад

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

@aromaroma4887 4 года назад

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

@thebeatisdead 5 лет назад

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.

@eldramaking 5 лет назад

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

@diegomoreno5927 5 лет назад

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

@yangashi 5 лет назад

lol

@ondrejpaska862 5 лет назад

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

@vrixphillips 5 лет назад

yaaaaaaay genet~

@sagarikaborar.8310 4 года назад

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

@simonstans381 5 лет назад

How do you make the animated portions of this video?

@Juansonos 5 лет назад

The animated parts are done by Thought Café

@lacybookworm5039 5 лет назад

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

@171QA 5 лет назад

I have a copy of Waiting For Godot.

@fionafiona1146 5 лет назад

I am dissatisfied and hope to be questioning!

@Scufflegrit 5 лет назад

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

@tasinyousufgmailcom 5 лет назад

Can you guys make a video about plasma?

@mojosbigsticks 5 лет назад

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

@qiuyushi2752 5 лет назад

There needs to be crash course geology

@diegomoreno5927 5 лет назад

It is still quiet popular

@adam850 5 лет назад

No on-screen credits. Was this an oversight?

@jasonsgroovemachine 7 месяцев назад

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

@leonardo9259 5 лет назад

Chom choms

@lejoueur 5 лет назад

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

@sagarikaborar.8310 4 года назад

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

@SaiyanHeretic 5 лет назад

7:48 John Madden John Madden John Madden

@tippersfunnyworld4795 4 года назад

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

@bsku0765 5 лет назад

I love godot

@Orinfoo 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

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

@ms.rstake_1211 5 лет назад

I wish I could give CC $10,000. 😔

@Themistocles1993 5 лет назад

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

@tomaszstefaniuk9449 4 года назад

Albert... Kamoo? Reeeeally?

@Dayglodaydreams 5 лет назад

"Yay, intellectuals"!

@DefaultSeaTurtle 5 лет назад

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

@Marco_Onyxheart 5 лет назад

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

@edo9k 4 года назад

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

@marcusmusings 5 лет назад

Is Stoppard considered absurdist?

@SunriseFireberry 5 лет назад

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

@ihaveasticknmyi 5 лет назад

Lawl.

@mr51406 5 лет назад

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.

@naethavenir9422 4 года назад

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 :|

@theomakotoko2524 4 года назад

Picckkkleeee Riiiiiick

@CharmedKitty143 5 лет назад

*serious face* ... lol...

@robertpalumbo9089 5 лет назад

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