Act Without Words

Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words is a great work that begins to look at other approaches other than dialogue to create the writers vision. I find Beckett's idea ingenious. By omitting dialogue in this act the play becomes something more barbaric, more minimalistic, which in turn creates humor at a primitive level. I also like how in this act we never know if the man is actually seeing stuff come from the sky or if he is hallucinating. This leaves an unanswered question to the viewer and adds to the humor of this act. Overall I feel this act has a dark sense of humor to it because the man stranded in the desert is teased by the carafe of water but he is never able to obtain it and in the end he even gives up on the hope of ever obtaining the carafe.