CATASTROPHE

Catastrophe

Catastrophe is a short play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1982 at the invitation of A.I.D.A. and “1irst produced in the Avignon Festival … Beckett considered it ‘massacred.’” It is one of his few plays to deal with a political theme and, arguably, holds the title of Beckett's most optimistic work. It was dedicated to then imprisoned Czech reformer and playwright, Václav Havel.

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catastrophe

Noun

  1. Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
  2. A disaster beyond expectations
  3. The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot in a tragedy.
  4. A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.


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