There are a variety of reasons as to why productions of plays specifically add to the meaning and understanding of the context surrounding the content. In this essay, all of these will be examined meticulously with the aid of examples, namely ‘Waiting for Godot’ and ‘Lady Windermere 's Fan’. These two dramatic texts lend themselves both to being read and being performed and it is through this that there is a need to assess which is better; in terms of understanding the texts and their underlying meanings set about by the authors. From productions we are able to grasp the complexity of the play’s underlying meanings with a more fervent understanding. However there are several factors that need to be addressed when weighing up the need for a
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It wasn’t received well initially by English audiences and critics but was thought of as similar to Lewis Carol’s nonsense poems due to the nothingness that it presents and the way in which it goes about this.
“Waiting for Godot at the Arts Theatre Club is a play to send the rationalist out of his mind and induce tooth-gnashing among people who would take Lewis Carroll 's Red Queen and Lear 's nonsense exchanges with the fool as the easiest stuff in the world. The play, if about anything, is ostensibly about two tramps who spend the two acts, two evenings long, under a tree on a bit of waste ground - "waiting for …show more content…
However this is easily disputed as literature on a whole needs to take in to account the readers perspective in order to make sense. The contextualisation of prose and poetry are essential in any form of understanding of a play. In the instance of ‘Waiting for Godot’ we must be aware of the
“In addition, the vista of empty streets, bare ground and solitary trees brought “Godot” to mind: he had already used the play’s landscape as a setting for one his animations. This in turn evoked the memory of Susan Sontag’s production with amateur actors in Sarajevo in 1993, and performances in prisons before
It wasn’t received well initially by English audiences and critics but was thought of as similar to Lewis Carol’s nonsense poems due to the nothingness that it presents and the way in which it goes about this.
“Waiting for Godot at the Arts Theatre Club is a play to send the rationalist out of his mind and induce tooth-gnashing among people who would take Lewis Carroll 's Red Queen and Lear 's nonsense exchanges with the fool as the easiest stuff in the world. The play, if about anything, is ostensibly about two tramps who spend the two acts, two evenings long, under a tree on a bit of waste ground - "waiting for …show more content…
However this is easily disputed as literature on a whole needs to take in to account the readers perspective in order to make sense. The contextualisation of prose and poetry are essential in any form of understanding of a play. In the instance of ‘Waiting for Godot’ we must be aware of the
“In addition, the vista of empty streets, bare ground and solitary trees brought “Godot” to mind: he had already used the play’s landscape as a setting for one his animations. This in turn evoked the memory of Susan Sontag’s production with amateur actors in Sarajevo in 1993, and performances in prisons before