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plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless
Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd
How To Use theater of the absurd In A Sentence
- In the history of drama, Albee has been canonized as the primary American practitioner of what critic Martin Esslin has termed the "Theater of the Absurd".
- So I decided to try to carve a kind of theater of the absurd in wood.
- Harold Pinter is a great contemporary British playwright, who has made great contribution to the theater of the absurd.
- Yet, like the best of Beckett's dialogues, McDonough's theater of the absurd -- the show's title is the intentionally misspelled and lowercased "reck room" -- has a few good ideas to share. Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint
- Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd
- I didn't really know how to carve, but as a scriptwriter I had been influenced by the French theater of the absurd, especially Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Ionesco's The Bald Soprano.
- In the history of drama, Albee has been canonized as the primary American practitioner of what critic Martin Esslin has termed the "Theater of the Absurd".
- Yet, like the best of Beckett's dialogues, McDonough's theater of the absurd -- the show's title is the intentionally misspelled and lowercased "reck room" -- has a few good ideas to share. Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint
