Lee Kang-baek Lee Kang-baek Lee Kang-Baek (born December 1, 1947) is a South Korean playwright. Lee Kang-Baek was born on December 1, 1947 in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, South Korea Lee recounts that as a youth he was shocked to discover from French nouveaux romans and Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot that literary works could have unclear plotlines and circular plot structures. His early love for such works highly influenced his own literary productions. Lee has published roughly thirty dramas, all in the anti-realist style. Lee writes dramas almost exclusively, and most of his work has been staged. This attests to the
Silence (1969 play) Silence (1969 play) Silence is a short play by Harold Pinter first performed in 1969. The première was given by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London on 2 July 1969, directed by Peter Hall. The cast was: The American première was given in 1970 by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, with Barbara Tarbuck, Robert Symonds and James Patterson, directed by Peter Gill. In the introduction to the first volume of his "Complete Plays", Pinter wrote: There are two silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed. This speech is