Interpretation Challenge: Breath: The Shortest Play by Samuel Beckett This blog is a response to the task assigned in the google classroom. Click Here to get the task link... Breath by Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett is considered one of the last modernist writers who gave noteworthy contribution in the “Theater of Absurd.” His later plays are extremely short, Breath is an unusually brief work. The duration of this play is only of 35 seconds. It consists of the sound of “an instant of recorded vagitues” (a birth cry), followed by an amplified recording of somebody slowly inhaling and exhaling accompanied by an increase and decrease in the intensity of light. (Wikipedia) 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 seco