Explore Ends And Odds Imagined By Samuel Beckett Formatted As Visual Format

I/
That Time/
Footfalls/
Ghost Trio/
, . . but the clouds ,/

ODDS
Roughs for Theatre and Radio:
Theatre I/
Theatre II,/
Radio I/
Radio II/I just read Rough For Theatre I and II.
They were weird and perplexing and very postmoderny, I'm not really a fan, Samuel Beckett's work is always postmodern and strange, This book contains nine short pieces, two of which were radio programs rather than stage shows, I did find a video of "Not I" on youtube sitelink youtube. com/watchvMLDw . I can only imagine what the audience felt seeing this performance when they didn't know what to expect, I also watched a production of "Rough for Theatre I" here: sitelink youtube. com/watchvAjPqu . It's great to see performances of these pieces after having read them, Especially the performance of "Not I" really brings the words on the page to life and shows just how powerful this play is, I don't read many plays, but I'm really glad I found this collection of lessknown short works, Very interesting stuff. Of all the authors I have read, I find Beckett to be the most challenging by far, In much the same way as reading textbooks and scholarly works meaning books meant to teach first and foremost and not to entertain or take one's mind off the day or transport you to another world/time/perspective, reading Beckett forces you to pay full attention to every single word.
You can't skim Beckett, or if you do, then you are not reading Beckett at all, for by skipping or eliding or jumping ahead you miss the point.
The words, the cadences, the repetitions, the minimalism, the circularity, the nowness, Beckett demands your attention and immersion, or maybe he just expects it, Why else read Why words Why I won't get into overreviewing each specific text in any Beckett book as I find that defeatist, or maybe beyond my ken.
Often its merely words on the page given meaning by how the reader interprets/intuits/internalizes them, I say Beckett is unequaled, unmatched, unsurpassed, but that is just one opinion, Still, I say read him, often, and again

So, genius,
Becketts works for the stage are tiny portraits of his unequaled genius, I love his use of words and his odd sentencefragment structure, His use of pauses, silence, and movement, all without accompanying speech is powerful, He manages to create an unsettling mood in much of the text, even with so few words, In “That Time” he brings to mind old, rusty ironworks, or maybe some mouldering farmhouse, overgrown and past use, His mastery of stagecraft is beautiful to behold, The exactness of his directives, his placement of objects and actors, his descriptive minutiae is beyond compare, Each of these pieces is singularly concise and efficient, simple and pointperfect, Seeing these performed must have been exhilarating and sobering,


Essential, as is anything Beckett,

Beckett Sonnet

I have a book by Samuel Beckett
entitled Ends And Odds, It consists of
nine late plays, with names like “Not I” or “That
Time, ” Heres the beginning of “Ghost Trio”:
“Good evening, Mine is a faint voice, Kindly
tune accordingly. ” Its a television
play, first broadcast in the UK back in
, There are only
two characters, F amp Boy but neither
speaks, A female voice produces all the
dialogue, Her last words are “Stop, Repeat. ”
F is trapped in a room and never meets
Boy, who comes to the door, wearing a black
oilskin glistening with rain then turns back.


Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prizewinning author of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in France for most of his adult life, He wrote in both English and French, His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of theth century, Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists, As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists, He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd, His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career, Beckett was awarded theNobel Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in France for most of his adult life.
He wrote in both English and French, His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of theth century, Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists, As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists, He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd", His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career, Beckett was awarded theNobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, whichin new forms for the novel and dramain the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation", Inhe was elected Saoi of Aosdána, sitelink.