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, 2020 Coined and first theorized by BBC Radio drama critic Martin Esslin in a 1960 article and a 1961 book of the same name, the “Theatre of the Absurd” is a literary and theatrical term used to describe a disparate group of avant-garde plays by a number of mostly European or American avant-garde playwrights whose theatrical careers, generally, began in the ...
Michael Y. Bennett
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Reassessing The Theatre Of The Absurd: Parabolic Drama And The Question Of Absurdity
, 2009 Entitled “Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Parabolic Drama and the Question of Absurdity,” my dissertation interrogates the conventional idea that the Theatre of the Absurd contemplates the purposelessness of life by re-examining some of the major plays of Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter.
Bennett, Michael Y
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THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
The thesis explores the historical origins of the Theatre of the Absurd in the experience of the war, occupation, and postwar world in France. ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ is a term coined in 1960 to describe a significant body of theatrical work, written, and staged, which emerged following the war.
Anderson, Annie
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Artificial theatres of the absurd
This chapter looks at how the co-creative gesture of performing theatre with artificial intelligence invokes a quality of the ethical theatre of the absurd by positioning the human creative act in seemingly ‘equal’ relation to an uncaring passive ...
Boyd Branch, Piotr Mirowski
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The Socialist Absurd, the Absurd, and the Post-Absurd—A Syndrome of Contemporary Bulgarian Theatre
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