Baling tangan, sembunyi batu

Sumber: http://pastorron7.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/the-worlds-shortest-play-beckett/


“The World’s Shortest Play (Beckett)

Samuel Beckett wrote a play titled “Breath” that from beginning to end lasts 35 seconds. The play begins with a child’s first breath while the stage is covered with trash. The play ends with a person’s final breath while the view of trash on the stage stays the main focus. The point of the play is that we come into a world of trash… live briefly… then die. Such is the world’s view of life.

Beckett was an Irish avant-garde writer, poet, and dramatist. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. As such he is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Yet he was a recluse… intensely private… and seems to be a person without much hope in his life… as his play “Breath” portrays.”


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Dalam sesi bimbingannya kepada anak-anak muda di Madrasah Seni, Kampung Banda Dalam, Gombak semalam (Ahad, 26 Februari 2012), Dinsman telah bercakap tentang teater ‘nafas’nya (dengusan?) Beckett. Petang ini, Hasni yang semalamnya bercakap tentang keindahan karya mengikut teorinya Al-Ghazali, bertanya: Kini terdapat rentetan keganasan bersiri terhadap para penceramah Pakatan Rakyat, namun anak-anak muda Pakatan Rakyat seolah-olah ― tergamam...?

"Kenapa??" tanya Hasni.


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Saya pun jadi teringat kepada peribahasa yang boleh kita berikan nafas baru:

“Baling tangan sembunyi batu!!!”


Nota kaki:

1) Demikianlah teknologi, sekelip mata kita sudah tahu apakah itu, “Breath” Tk Dins, kerana tak jemu-jemu mencerahkan anak-anak muda kita, termasuk yang sudah tua bangka - seperti saya.

2) Pagi ini, seorang anak muda bertanya, “Haji tahukah yang di fb itu, kenapakah dipanggil wall - dinding?”