Interpretation of Breath play: Samuel Beckett

   Interpretation of Breath play : Samuel Beckett 

Breath is a play written by Samuel Beckett in the 1969. It considered as a smallest play ever written. It is only about 30 second play. It also considered as experimental play. This play can be interpretated many ways. The play consider as absurd play. Here I tried to interpretate play. 

● Meaning of the Breath :

Breath means both life and death. In life it consider as the symbol  of action. Sometimes person so much habituated of breathing. Person doesn't realise its actually importance for live life. The play reflects the reality of human life. It reflects meaningless and Existentialism. Meaningless in the sense that people has no any purpose of living life. We live life just waiting for death. Breathing help us to reach ultimately death. So Breath is the symbol of Bridge between life and death. 

The script of the play:

CURTAIN Up

1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.

2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.

3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds. 

CURTAIN Down

This script of play also consider as a script of life. The time of play 30 seconds shows that  how time fastly passes.

1) Breath by Damien Hirst :

Materialistic Earth 

Natural Earth 

In this video described materialistic things. People born in materialistic world. Earth is replaced by Materialistic garbage. It shows how people polluted natural world and turn it into Materialistic world with full of garbage like plastic , technical machines , medicines. It also shows effect of global warming. 

2) Breath - Samuel Beckett by Liana De Jourdan: 

In this video shows fresh fruits and vegetables and pesticides package of fruit juices . People eat vegetables and fruits to maintain their health. But this things are meaningless no one escape from death. These fruits and vegetables helps to live healthy life but it doesn't save us from ultimate death. Also this pesticide fruit juice harmful to human health.

3) National Theatre School First Year Technical Production Class project, production of Samuel Beckett's play Breath.

In this video shows light and garbage. Here light is the symbol of life. Garbage is symbol of meaningless like our life. Garbage made from many meaning less things. Life is also like that people do things without any meaning. This video try to interpretated into two angles. Crying of child at beginning shows birth of person and at the end shows death of person. So people come into world with crying and gone with make other crying. Child crying at birth gives happiness to others but at the end of life crying become symbol of unhappiness. It shows how the meaning of one thing changes according to situation.

4) Samuel Beckett Breath ( Modern Interpretation )

The video reflect modern ara. In this video cover life of human from birth to death. How human surrounded by materialistic things. In this shows development of science. It reflects paradox of  science and Nature. Nature shows detachment from things. People are come and gone but Nature never working according to it.  This things also seeing in human life. One person passed away so because of it others life never stops. Life goes on and on. In the world person surrounded by other humanbeings though person is alone. It also shows reality of human life. Photographs are symbol of memories people trys to preserve memory in the form of photos.In this also shows human health that how body of human depending on medicine. People controlling death with the help of science. But all these things are meaning less because death will never stop by anything. So these all things shows absurdity of life. How human life is meaningless.