Abstract

Not I is one of Samuel Beckett’s one act plays. It is a dramatic monologue played in fifteen minutes. The play commences with the mouth of a speaker alone on a dark stage, while the rest of the head and the body are removed and accompanied with an Auditor who is totally enveloped in darkness. The Mouth utters broken and meaningless utterances. Beckett wants to prove that the suffering of the man has been more than anything to be expressed by a language. Beckett uses the Mouth in darkness, an Auditor in black robe and silence more than broken language to create a dramatic communication. He makes a language out of silence and a dramatic communication out of such silence.