20th century plays, The Three sisters Chekhov Happy Days Beckett. The theme essay, "How theatre address modern conditions loss, alienation futility human endeavor?" differences structurally stylistically? Tell realism absurdist plays. Alienation and stasis: Three Sisters by Chekhov and Happy Days by Beckett Both the Russian playwright and short story author Anton Chekhov and the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett are known for their serious plays that some audiences find 'depressing.' However, the

Certainly, this subverts, right away, our assumptions of what is likely and humanly possible. Later, Gregor's enraged father violently illustrates the old social maxim that appearances really do matter, by pelting his stubbornly-metamorphosed son with apples in a fury one day. Soon afterward, Gregor dies. In most cases, human beings are saddened when a son or brother dies, but in this case, the remaining Samsa family members, with the

As Beauvoir said, these plays tend to deal with restoring a sense of value and choice to a world that has been largely stripped of these features by modern critical, literary, and dramatic trends. Character is created with a greater sense of agency in these plays, and identity -- especially feminine identity -- ironically emerges as more of an actively created and self-determined construct through its interactions within and

Stanislavsky Constantin Stanislavsky is the father of modern acting theory. His theories which he extols in his four books, My Life in Art (1924), An Actor Prepares (1936), Building a Character (1941), and Creating a Role (1961) have had an unparalleled effect on actors and acting instructors throughout the world. Acting theorists such as Vsevelod Meyerhold, Uta Hagen, and Bertold Brecht have all taken his theories into account while developing