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Interpretion Challenge: Breath: The Shortest play by Samuel Beckett

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“Breath” by Samuel Beckett

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

Modern literature experiments with the traditional one. Theme of absurdity and nothingness is in center. Artist try to find new meanings and try to extent  their vision over horizon. Samuel Bucket, Harold Pinter, Virginia Woolf all were the writers of that period. Which raise question about existence and try to put it on canvas or paper through words or colors.
Samuel Bucket wrote a play ‘Breath’ 30second play? Is it in another tittle of the paly? Is that Play is only 30second longer? Answer is yes. Breath is paly of thirty second. It is surprising to me also, when it first time introduced by Teacher in class. Curtain up with noise of breath and constant cry in background noise. Only visibly thing on floor is rubbish and curtains down. That’s all! We can call it absurd but it is open to interpret with our meanings and can expand our understanding.


1.My interpretation on Video by Damien Hirst.

Camera moves ups to down and with the fearful voice of breath Garbage of hospital is shown. As per my thinking this play want to show struggle of life and at last what we find is nothing. Passing days as garbage, exhale breathe as nothing but just as carbon dioxide which is burden on earth.
We can connect this meaninglessness of life in Gita Sandesh.

 जो हुआ, वह अच्छा हुआ, जो हो रहा है, वह अच्छा हो रहा है, जो होगा, वह भी अच्छा ही होगा। तुम भूत का पश्चाताप न करो। भविष्य की चिन्ता न करो। वर्तमान चल रहा है।
तुम्हारा क्या गया, जो तुम रोते हो? तुम क्या लाए थे, जो तुमने खो दिया? तुमने क्या पैदा किया था, जो नाश हो गया? न तुम कुछ लेकर आए, जो लिया यहीं से लिया। जो दिया, यहीं पर दिया। जो लिया, इसी (भगवान) से लिया। जो दिया, इसी को दिया।
We are born free, with nothing and we died with open hand. We can say.. We enter, this is what we call born, we cry, shout is Life and we go out that's death!


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