Theatre of the Absurd
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Theatre of the Absurd
A primarily European style of absurdist theatre of the late 1950s, focusing on existentialism and the breakdowns arising from a lack of meaning or purpose.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Surrealism and the theatre Surrealist theatre and Artaud's "Theatre of Cruelty" were inspirational to many within the group of playwrights that the critic Martin Esslin called the " Theatre of the Absurd " (in his 1963 book of the same name).
The term "Theatre of the Absurd" was coined by Martin Esslin in a book of the same name; Beckett and Godot were centerpieces of the book.