Book description
Presents three dramatic works by the contemporary French experimental playwright.
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This play profoundly affected me (even though it only played out in my head and not on a real stage). It is both disturbing and moving. It is absurdist, but that nightmarish detachment from reality somehow sends an even stronger shock to the system in its warnings about how fascism takes hold: that strong human tendency towards social thinking (emerging neuroscience research suggests a substantial overlap between physical pain and social pain).
This is much more than just an allegory on authoritarianism, however. Recently, people have used it to explain how easily society gave up on a public health approach…
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