Theatre of the Absurd

The theater of the absurd, or the drama of the absurd, is a trend in theatre (plays or acting) that uses absurdism. It started in the early 1950s in the theatre of France.

In absurdist plays, unlike ordinary plays, the playwright conveys to the reader and the viewer his sense of a problem. This constantly violates logic. so the viewer, accustomed to ordinary theater, is confused and feels discomfort. That is the goal of "illogical" theater. It aims at getting the viewer to get rid of the patterns in his perception and look at his life in a new way. Supporters of the "logical" theater say that the world in the "theater of the absurd" is presented as a senseless, illogical pile of facts, deeds, words and destinies. When reading such plays, one can notice that they are made up of a number of quite logical fragments. The logic of the connection of these fragments differs sharply from the logic of the connection of the parts of an "ordinary" play. The principles of "absurdism" were most fully embodied in the dramas "The Bald Singer" (La cantatrice chauve, 1950) by the Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco and "Waiting for Godot" (1952) by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett.^[1]

1. ↑ Roger, Tritton (1999). The Hutchinson encyclopedia : the millennium edition. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-288-8. OCLC 841858949.