Volume : 7, Issue : 4, April - 2018

Theatre of the Absurd - Introduction and Features

Dhaval Kataria

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:&#10;150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">‘The Theatre of the Absurd‘ as a catch-phrase is much used and much abused. However, there is no organized movement, no school of artists, who claim the label for themselves. A good many playwrights who have been classed under this label, when asked if they <i>belong</i> to the Theatre of the Absurd, will indignantly reply that they belong to no such movement - and quite rightly so. For each of the playwrights concerned seeks to express no more and no less than his own personal vision of the world.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:&#10;150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">The Theatre of the Absurd expresses what happens when human existence loses its meaning and purpose. With that, communication eaks down, leading to illogical arguments and construction giving way to illogical and irrational speech and dialogues. The result is silence. The absurd plays insist on the audience/readers not to follow this and have logical conversations, otherwise all the conversations will eak down and illogical silence will prevail.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>