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-Thornton Wilder – The Long Christmas Dinner  its characters erratically changing clothing to catch up with time. And eventually, when death occurs, they will exit stage right through a portal.
-The Visit- Claire talks extremely superficial to her worker and unnatural for example, " Now I want to..." and " Do you expect me to hike for miles.." (p.17)

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often characterised by a deliberate absence of the cause and effect relationship between scenes and occasionally appearing as though there is no plot at all to speak of

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absurd originally means “out of harmony” (in a musical context).
its meaning in the theatre of the absurd is different to the everyday meaning of the word as “ridiculous”

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it was short lived but made quite a large impact in theatrical movement

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it was short lived but made quite a large impact in theatrical movement

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Absurd as a similiar definition with ridiculous and preposterous.

They all share the definition of being inconsistent with reason or common sense
A deeper of Absurd would be utterly opposed to truth or reason

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Absurdist fiction, a genre of literature made famous by Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Kurt Vonnegut, and Paul Auster

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"the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any.

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Mix of the comedy and tragic genre

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The Absurd writers took some elements of tragic comedy

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When someone is absurd, it means they are acting or being very illogical and unreasonable

Ex. "The storekeeper was acting wildly absurd."

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After the Holocaust and WWII, the world appeared chaotic and meaningless

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Expressed an inability to make sense of human actions, choices, and life itself

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French: Le Théâtre de l'Absurde

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Drama popular throughout European countries from the 1940s to approximately 1989. Absurdist playwrights adhered to the theories of French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus

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New Genre Emerged in France

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Full of puns, repetition, cliches