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Dramatic Uneasiness - Part 2: Are we tied to the Absurd?


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Sometimes life can hit harder than we can endure and we find ourselves lost amidst the darkest shadows, thus trying to find a way out of such lethargy. 

Some will seek suicide, some will turn to religion or grasp anything capable of sustaining the desire to remain alive. 

We build and believe in several illusions as a means of finding meanings to our lives. In his most famous play "Waiting for Godot", Samuel Beckett makes the idea of absurdity the most concrete as possible: a play in which "nothing happens" has so much in it linguistically speaking that it can really bother us and make us think about the Godots to whom we're tied to, therefore hindering our life perspectives.

In this second part on The Theater of the Absurd, you'll find reflections such as these and more! It's now available. We hope you enjoy it as much as we had a great time recording it.

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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)

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