Abstract
"The exposition of the story and its communication by suitable means of estrangement, constitute the main business of the theatre; everything hangs on the story; it is the heart of the theatrical performance" (Bertolt Brecht, A Short Organum for the Theatre). Thus it is observed that, in Beckett's ?Collected Shorter Plays', it seems that the newest convention for expressing psychological inwardness on stage appears to be the so-called technique of storytelling where the narrative suddenly becomes drama. This really marks a break with the former accepted theatrical convention for revealing a character's hidden thoughts: the soliloquy. A soliloquy is a device meant to stop the external action so that internal mind could be expressed. Storytelling is the art of portraying in words, images, and sounds, what has happened in real or imagined events. To Beckett, it represents the human effort to create order out of a random experience. A story can be presented through action, dialogue and narration. It is an interactive experience between a teller and a listener.
