As with Brecht’s plays, every dramatist writing after 1945 must contend with the plays of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). For both the American and European theatre, Beckett and Brecht — operating from opposite sides of the aesthetic and ideological divide — turned the conventions of the pre-war theatre upside-down. No dramatist — and no critic — [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:36AM on October 4, 2011