This semester of Childsplay's Academy, the Conservatory 2B students are being introduced to styles of theatre including Theatre of the Absurd, an unconventional form of drama that tends to be repetitious, purposeless, with meaningless dialogue and confusing and unrealistic situations in order to emphasize a statement. Today we talked about Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett, as an example of this style of theatre. Enjoy this clip of Sesame Street's rendition of Theatre of the Absurd:
Saturday, January 30, 2010
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All great literature, I feel, is better enjoyed with cookies afterward. Don't you? Kudos to the brilliance of Cookie Monster.
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