/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10769782]

Even the most pretentious, postmodern plays are fairly accessible, easy to understand, and can be finished in a single day.

Why doesn't /lit/ read more contemporary plays?

[Anonymous No.10769815]

>>10769782
Same reason I don't read much contemporary fiction, consume much contemporary art, watch much television, or go to the movies.
99% of everything is complete shit

[Anonymous No.10769826]

>>10769782
Why would I read something just because it's short? To come closer to my goodreads goal?
>doesn't recommend any plays
Is it just to say I read a lot?
Any good ones worth reading?

[Anonymous No.10769836]

>>10769782
Because plays often aren't published in a form intended for reading and I get annoyed working with actor's editions.

>>10769826
OP's pic is good

[Anonymous No.10769864]

>>10769836
But Godot is the go to modern play.
anyone who has interest in the subject will have read it unless they have just started reading.
It would be like asking for fantasy novel recommendations and being told to read Lord of the Rings.

[Anonymous No.10769868]

>>10769782
>fairly accessible, easy to understand
>says this while posting Godot

[Anonymous No.10769899]

>>10769782
>LOL Godot is God theyre waiting for GOD LIOOOOOOL :))))

[Anonymous No.10769902]

>>10769868
It's literally
>le edgy there is no meaning and life is so absurd but we gotta go on anyway!!!111oneone

[Anonymous No.10769909]

i've seen enough contemporary plays to know they're complete, irredeemable trash

[Anonymous No.10769915]

This is the superior waiting core

[Anonymous No.10769951]

>>10769826

>Why would I read something just because it's short?

How many people on /lit/ have actually finished Infinite Jest? How many people spend months asking /lit/ for the best translation of War and Peace only to give up part way through and use "shitty'" translation as an excuse to not continue reading it?

[Anonymous No.10769957]

>>10769782
you're a brainlet who thinks simple language implies lack of depth

[Anonymous No.10769958]

>>10769902
I would hardly call it accessible just because it's bleak and morose. I found Waiting For Godot to be the most obtuse play I've ever read. I still don't understand who Godot is supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.10769965]

>>10769958
It's Absurdism. Godot is no one in particular.

[Anonymous No.10770025]

>>10769782
Plays are better seen than read in most cases, especially with Godot.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a pretty good contemporary play.

[Anonymous No.10770334]

>>10769782
This guy is better than Beckett and criminally underrated

[Anonymous No.10770345]

>>10769958
It doesn't matter what Godot is
Godot isn't anything
The waiting is the thing

[Anonymous No.10770346]

>>10769782
only pseuds write them or watch them

[Anonymous No.10770354]

>>10770334
>criminally underrated
>won the nobel prize

[Anonymous No.10770380]

Because, like poetry, theater is dead. Why bother?

[Anonymous No.10770390]

>>10769782
Which authors?

[Anonymous No.10770394]

>>10769902
Imagine actually being this retarded.

[Anonymous No.10770399]

>>10770334
Betrayal was GOAT
>>10770380
I hope you die from cancer

[Anonymous No.10770400]

>>10769958
>I still don't understand who Godot is supposed to be.
It doesn't matter who LE GODOT is because NOTHING LE MATTERS

BUT WE GOTTA KEEP GOIN ON ANYWAY :^) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [spoiler[In all honesty, I think Beckett was a genius, but he got kinda unrelatable and corny the more he wrote. I liked Molloy and Watt the most, and preferred Watt. [/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.10770418]

>>10770399
I am sorry, anon, I really am. And to be 100% I read two or three contemporary plays in the last 4 months, so I'm not totally out of the loop. But I'm speaking truthfully: theater is practically dead. It has practically no cultural value anymore, it's nothing but a living carcass. I wish it wasn't dead, I wish it still carried a lot of weight. It's time to let go. At some point we'll look at plays as we look at tapestry: boring old shit people from the past used to do.

[Anonymous No.10770465]

>>10770418
They had a big tapestry at my local art museum a couple months back, it was really fucking interesting.

Theater museums when?

[Anonymous No.10770492]

>>10770418
Relax with the posturing friendo. Theatre is definitely hitting a slump, but I think that's only because there's more money in cinema and TV. Wait until the screen industry stagnates and becomes formulaic and they find a better way to monetise the stage while also giving writers more creative freedom.

As for poetry, I agree with you though. The best we'll get is really good, literary songwriting

[Anonymous No.10770493]

Theatre is for degenerates, I don't want to be anywhere near this shit. Anything that is built to set humans in motion is anti-ethical.

[Anonymous No.10770528]

>>10770334
Dude won a fucking Noble prize… Stoppard is better, anyway.

[Anonymous No.10770584]

>>10769782
Professional actor here. You shouldn't read plays, you should watch them.

[Anonymous No.10770836]

>>10769902
you are insufferable I hope you know that.

[Anonymous No.10770866]

>>10770584

I see that actors don't get a cut of the profits from print sales.

[Anonymous No.10772360]

>>10770400
Why that cynicism?

(btw Beckett is generally seen as 'post-existentialist' rather than existentialist; i.e. a more Adorno view of the 'absurd';- imho not really right)

[Anonymous No.10772479]

>>10770493
Please elaborate
Or just rec some books to come to this conclusion. I want to be a filmmaker, but I have also felt this a lot of times, although I couldn't actually explain the thought. Until this is resolved, I doubt I could make anything of merit.

[Anonymous No.10772495]

me and beckett contemporaries now

[Anonymous No.10772542]

>>10770584
Is it odd that I prefer to read plays because watching people act mentally disgusts me?
I can't look at 75% of actors in role, it makes me uncomfortable. Much rather just imagine the characters thank you very much.