End Game Critical Analysis Matty Kursar
Overview: 'End Game', was a weird and wonderful experience in its own right. Although not necessarily packed full of dramatic tension and quirky hooks that catch the audience’s attentions and drag them around like dogs on very short leads (like many absurdist performances do) there is still plenty to talk about the construction and performance of 'End Game'.
Themes: To begin this analysis of themes I believe the easiest way will be to throw out ideas that the play attempted to tackle and then break them down into the key components of how and where in the play they can be found.
Some of the key themes were the ideas of the pain and suffering associated with 'loneliness' and 'isolation'. This isn't …show more content…
This ‘dying’ can be seen to be associated with the isolation of the characters. The constant reminders of death and pain when seeing the characters brings forth ideas regarding the effects prolonged isolation from either their senses (Cloves Movement, Hamm’s Sight, Parents Hearing) or society in general considering the characters current suspension in a non-realistic world. ‘End Game’ tries to show through these that isolation is a situation that is impossible for a human to maintain their life and sanity in. This association of isolation with inevitable death and gloom is one of the key ideas in the text that is presented to the …show more content…
A lot of the connections I personally have created regarding these themes very closely group into the idea that the performance was in an absurdist style giving it reason to be as ridiculous and outlandish as it was. This connotation going into the performance that since it was absurdist in nature many of the obviously planned ideas were simply the ridiculous play doing what it was good at, distracting the audience from some of the deeper, more complex themes that could be ascertained from ‘End Game’. This distraction (as well as the lack of dramatic tension in the play causing slight boredom and general lack of interest from the audience) was the brunt of the reason that these themes slipped past most of the audience. I believe these last 2 themes were extremely unsuccessfully presented to the
Overview: 'End Game', was a weird and wonderful experience in its own right. Although not necessarily packed full of dramatic tension and quirky hooks that catch the audience’s attentions and drag them around like dogs on very short leads (like many absurdist performances do) there is still plenty to talk about the construction and performance of 'End Game'.
Themes: To begin this analysis of themes I believe the easiest way will be to throw out ideas that the play attempted to tackle and then break them down into the key components of how and where in the play they can be found.
Some of the key themes were the ideas of the pain and suffering associated with 'loneliness' and 'isolation'. This isn't …show more content…
This ‘dying’ can be seen to be associated with the isolation of the characters. The constant reminders of death and pain when seeing the characters brings forth ideas regarding the effects prolonged isolation from either their senses (Cloves Movement, Hamm’s Sight, Parents Hearing) or society in general considering the characters current suspension in a non-realistic world. ‘End Game’ tries to show through these that isolation is a situation that is impossible for a human to maintain their life and sanity in. This association of isolation with inevitable death and gloom is one of the key ideas in the text that is presented to the …show more content…
A lot of the connections I personally have created regarding these themes very closely group into the idea that the performance was in an absurdist style giving it reason to be as ridiculous and outlandish as it was. This connotation going into the performance that since it was absurdist in nature many of the obviously planned ideas were simply the ridiculous play doing what it was good at, distracting the audience from some of the deeper, more complex themes that could be ascertained from ‘End Game’. This distraction (as well as the lack of dramatic tension in the play causing slight boredom and general lack of interest from the audience) was the brunt of the reason that these themes slipped past most of the audience. I believe these last 2 themes were extremely unsuccessfully presented to the