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Absurdist Theater
-"A world that can be explained by reasoning, however faulty, is a familiar world. ... This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, truly constitutes the feeling of absurdity"
- Camus
Absurdist is defined as the agreement between some European and American playwrights that the human situation is absurd. All absurdist’s share a belief that life is meaningless and has no purpose. People who write Absurdist Theater are different just to be different. For example, if everyone said the world was round, absurdist authors would write about how the world was flat. ... html)
The father of absurdist theatre is considered to be Eugene Ionesco. ... One of his most successful plays was called “Rhinoceros”, when it was performed at a theater in Germany it received fifty curtain calls.
The original absurdist was Alfred Jarry. ... ” The follow ups to that play were: -----When he put on the play called “Ubi Rex” at a London theater, some audience members were angry and outraged but others were intrigued. That’s basically how it is for absurdist theatre now, some people love it and some people hate it. He was the first prophet in the theater of the absurd. ... com)
Samuel Beckett is also an important figure when it came to the development of absurdist theater.
Approximate Word count = 1065
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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