Title: Beyond Absurdity: Albee's Awareness of Audience in <i>Tiny Alice</i>
Abstract:CLASSICALLY, theatre of the absurd was a Negation. As typified by the plays of Beckett, Ionesco, and Genet written in the 50's, it attacked conventional modes of perception and expression in order to ...CLASSICALLY, theatre of the absurd was a Negation. As typified by the plays of Beckett, Ionesco, and Genet written in the 50's, it attacked conventional modes of perception and expression in order to negate the conceptions which formed and were signified by those modes. Like surrealism, its first goal was to destroy an outmoded vision of reality. Thus, as seemed to befit a theatre of negation, it utilized satire, paradox and surrealistic allegory. The absurdist playwright eschewed any mimicking of surface reality lest he seem to imply its validity — as Sartre writes of Genet, "in order to be sure of never making proper use of appearance [he] wants his fancies, at two or three stages of derealization, to reveal themselves in their nothingness. “I Consequently, absurdist plays usually related only allegorically to the audience's reality.Read More
Publication Year: 1975
Publication Date: 1975-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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