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	Absurd
		Theatre of the Absurd refers to particular plays written by a number of European and American playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
		Among the major playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd are Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Adamov and Harold Pinter.
		The Theatre of the Absurd, or Theater of the Absurd (French: "Le Théâtre de l'Absurde") is a designation for particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
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		Theatre of the Absurd refers to particular plays written by a number of European and American playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
		The Theatre of the Absurd is typified by apparently meaningless plots, repetitive dialogue and dramatic non sequiturs, which together often create a dream-like mood.
		Among the major playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd are Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Adamov and Harold Pinter.
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	Theatre of the Absurd
		Theatre of the Absurd refers to particular plays written by a number of European and American playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
		The Theatre of the Absurd is typified by apparently meaningless plots, repetitive dialogue and dramatic non sequiturs, which together often create a dream-like mood.
		Among the major playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd are Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Adamov and Harold Pinter.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Theater_of_the_absurd.html (139 words)

	Theatre of the Absurd
		The “Theatre of the Absurd” is a term coined by Hungarian-born critic Martin Esslin, who made it the title of his 1962 book on the subject.
		Absurd elements first made their appearance shortly after the rise of Greek drama, in the wild humor and buffoonery of Old Comedy and the plays of Aristophanes in particular.
		The Theatre of the Absurd was also anticipated in the dream novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka who created archetypes by delving into their own subconscious and exploring the universal, collective significance of their own private obsessions.
	www.theatredatabase.com /20th_century/theatre_of_the_absurd.html (1776 words)

	Theater of the Absurd - MSN Encarta
		The Theatre of the Absurd (French : " Le Théâtre de l'Absurde ") is a designation for particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s...
		Precursors to the theater of the absurd can be found in a number of late 19th-century and early 20th-century writers and literary movements.
		Other theatrical trends and movements that influenced the theater of the absurd or were incorporated into it include vaudeville and slapstick humor and the Verfremdungseffekt (alienation effect) of German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761585154/Theater_of_the_Absurd.html (608 words)

	Theatre of the Absurd - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"The Theatre of the Absurd" is a phrase used in reference to particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
		In practice, The Theatre of the Absurd departs from realistic characters, situations and all of the associated theatrical conventions.
		Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962)
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Theatre_of_the_Absurd (254 words)

	Theatre of the Absurd - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Theatre of the Absurd, or Theater of the Absurd (French: "Le Théâtre de l'Absurde") is a designation for particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
		The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins in Dadaism, nonsense poetry and avant-garde art of the 1910s – 1920s.
		In practice, The Theatre of the Absurd departs from realistic characters, situations and all of the associated theatrical conventions.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Theatre_of_the_Absurd (515 words)

	THE ABSURDITY OF SAMUEL BECKETT - CHAPTER 6
		If the general form of theatre is a fictive picture, the Theatre of the Absurd is a "picture in a picture", because its content is, at the same time, also a picture - an image, the author' subjective vision.
		The Theatre of the Absurd has a similar function; it makes man aware of his position in the Universe, which although precarious and mysterious, expresses the absence of any such generally accepted cosmic system of values.
		This is the proper subject of absurd theatre, determining its specific form, which is naturally different from the epic theatre form.
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		The Theatre of the Absurd (French: "Le Théâtre de l'Absurde") is a designation for particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
		In the first edition of The Theatre of the Absurd, Esslin saw the work of these playwrights as giving artistic articulation to Albert Camus' philosophy that life is inherently without meaning as illustrated in his work The Myth of Sisyphus.
		The Theatre of the Absurd is commonly associated with Existentialism, and Existentialism was an influential philosophy in Paris during the rise of the Theatre of the Absurd; however, to call it Existentialist theatre is problematic for many reasons.
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	THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
		The Absurd Theatre can be seen as an attempt to restore the importance of myth and ritual to our age, by making man aware of the ultimate realities of his condition, by instilling in him again the lost sense of cosmic wonder and primeval anguish.
		The Theatre of the Absurd is totally lyrical theatre which uses abstract scenic effects, many of which have been taken over and modified from the popular theatre arts: mime, ballet, acrobatics, conjuring, music-hall clowning.
		The rise of the Theatre of the Absurd in the East is connected with the period of relative relaxation of the East European regimes after Stalin's death.
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/Absurd.htm (3968 words)

	Quotes on Absurdism
		The Theatre of the Absurd attacks the comfortable certainties of religious or political orthodoxy.
		The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being--that is, in terms of concrete stage images.
		Theatre of the Absurd - A history and analysis of this dramatic movement, which includes the work of such dramatists as Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter.
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	THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
		The Absurd Theatre can be seen as an attempt to restore the importance of myth and ritual to our age, by making man aware of the ultimate realities of his condition, by instilling in him again the lost sense of cosmic wonder and primeval anguish.
		The Western Theatre of the Absurd highlighted man's fundamental bewilderment and confusion, stemming from the fact that man has no answers to the basic existential questions: why we are alive, why we have to die, why there is injustice and suffering.
		The rise of the Theatre of the Absurd in the East is connected with the period of relative relaxation of the East European regimes after Stalin's death.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/Absurd.htm (3968 words)

	Toronto Slavic Quarterly : Silvija Jestrović
		Stanislavskii's theatre presumes the notion of the invisible “fourth wall,” where the audience is given the sensation of peeking through a keyhole into the life on stage; the inner communication circle remains closed and the message is never sent directly to the audience.
		Theatre of the absurd is clearly not a movement nor even a very coherent trend that could be granted a label post festum, as was the case with Expressionism, for instance.
		In that light, Chekhov, understood as a precursor of the theatre of the absurd, is less of a harbinger of a certain dramturgical style, rather he prefigures a new relationship to reality conveyed through playwriting that could stylistically go, as the practice has shown, in various directions with a few elements in common.
	www.utoronto.ca /tsq/04/jestrovic04.shtml (3732 words)

	Absurd, Theatre of the – FREE Absurd, Theatre of the Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Absurd, Theatre of the ...
		Absurd, Theatre of the Dramatic and literary critical term developed from the philosophy of Albert Camus to describe discordant human experience in an inhuman world.
		A fight to the death in theatre of the absurd
		His plays, showing the influence of Bertolt Brecht as well as the Theatre of the Absurd, were central to the post-1945 revival of the German theatre.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-AbsurdTheatreofthe.html (913 words)

	Theatre of the Absurd@Everything2.com
		Theatre of the Absurd was an attempt to address the social issues of the time.
		All human exertions, it is suggested, are rendered absurd in light of their inevitable failure, and submission to the giggling dwarf (see Eugene Ionesco's The Killer) of death.
		The Theatre of the Absurd was centered around Paris, the artistic capital of Europe for much of the twentieth century (arguably up until the riots of 1968).
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=81595 (671 words)

	Theatre Puget Sound - Absurd Reality Theatre - Theatres and theatre producers in Seattle and the Puget Sound region
		Theatre Puget Sound is a trade and service organization founded in 1997 to promote the spiritual and economic necessity of theatre to the public, and to unify and strengthen the theatre community through programs, resources and services.
		Absurd Reality Theatre, founded in 2004, is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to enrich, educate and entertain our community by providing a superior theatre experience.
		Absurd Reality Theatre strives to stimulate, celebrate and enhance understanding of ourselves and others through the shared experience of live theatre by producing new and classic plays marked by innovative interpretations and a reflection on the world we live in.
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	Amazon.com: "Theatre of the Absurd"
		The list author says: "The term "Theatre of the Absurd" refers to the work of a loosely associated group of dramatists who attempt to convey their sense of bewilderment, anxiety, and wonder in the face of an inexplicable universe.
		In "The Theatre of the Absurd", Martin Esslin states, “The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being—that is, in terms of concrete stage images....
		The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
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	Theatre of the Absurd
		Needless to say, this genre of theatre took quite some time to catch on because it used techniques that seemed to be illogical to the theatre world.
		The characters of the play, are absurd caricatures who of course have problems communicating with one another, and the language they use is often times ludicrous.
		It is a little strange to think that Ionesco found his calling in playwrighting because at the time, he was known to dislike theatre because of the contradiction presented by the reality of the performers and the fiction of the stage.
	dana.ucc.nau.edu /~sek5/classpage.html (868 words)

	Theatre of the absurd \| Theatre & performing arts \| Guardian Unlimited
		By that token, most fringe theatres would have been shut down and The Mousetrap was the greatest play of the 20th century.
		For the former two it's obvious that the critic's faculties just aren't up to scratch when faced with something that doesn't follow the obvious path and the latter was dismissed by you as crass simple-minded populism when it was anything but.
		I really wish people wouldn't use the word "critic" to describe the men and women who go to the theatre and write a couple of columns abut whether they do or their imagined target demographic would like a show or not.
	blogs.guardian.co.uk /theatre/2007/02/theatre_of_the_absurd.html (2217 words)

	Absurd Drama - Martin Esslin
		A term like the Theatre of the Absurd must therefore be understood as a kind of intellectual shorthand for a complex pattern of similarities in approach, method, and convention, of shared philosophical and artistic premises, whether conscious or subconscious, and of influences from a common store of tradition.
		Yet, however contemporary the Theatre of the Absurd may appear it is by no means the revolutionary novelty as which some of its champions, as well as some of its bitterest critics, tend to represent it.
		Of the dramatists of the Absurd Samuel Beckett is undoubtedly the profoundest, the greatest poet.
	www.jamessaunders.org /jsesslin.htm (5267 words)

	MySpace.com - Absurd Reality Theatre - 71 - Male - Seattle, WASHINGTON - www.myspace.com/absurdrealitytheatre
		Absurd Reality Theatre, founded in 2005, is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to enrich, educate and entertain our community by providing a superior theatre experience.
		Absurd Reality Theatre was created to portray new and classic works dealing with the fine line between reality and the absurd.
		Absurd Reality Theatre is a company dedicated to producing theatrical endeavors that address issues that not only shape, but also transform who we are as individuals.
	www.myspace.com /absurdrealitytheatre (458 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Theatre of the Absurd [Theater of the Absurd]
		In a historical sense, Theatre of the Absurd can be seen to have arisen in Greek drama (in the so-called Old Comedy, and then in the plays of Aristophanes in particular).
		Absurd elements are noted here and there in plays by Ibsen and Strindberg, and later Pirandello, but the acknowledged predecessor of what came to be called Theatre of the Absurd is Alfred Jarry’s “monstrous puppet-play” Ubu Roi (1896).
		What has now come to be known as Theatre of the Absurd arose and flourished, largely in Paris, in a period that stretched from soon after World War Two into the 1970s.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=12 (494 words)

	History And Characteristics Of The Theatre Of The Absurd
		Theatre of the Absurd was a term used to refer to a set of plays written primarily in France from the mid-1940s through the 1950s.
		Dramatic action, as conventionally associated with theatre and plays is in small doses, although the players continue to perform.
		The Absurd Theatre began to decline in the mid-1960s.
	www.wisedude.com /art_music/theatre_absurd.htm (491 words)

	The Theatre of the Absurd
		The term “Theatre of the Absurd” was coined by Martin Esslin in his 1962 book by that title.
		In The Theatre of the Absurd, Esslin states, “The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being—that is, in terms of concrete stage images.
		Theatre of the Absurd: An Essential Reading List - A list of must-reads for anyone interested in absurdist theatre.
	www.theatrehistory.com /misc/theatre_of_the_absurd.html (395 words)

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