Theatre of the Absurd

In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett introduces audiences to two vagrants, Estragon (Gogo) and Vladimir (Didi). To summarize the action of the play: the two men are alone on a sparsely decorated stage. One lone, barren tree and a heap of rubbish are the only setting. Gogo and Didi discuss their existence which…

Big feet, stampeding rhinoceroses, and barren sets are typical of the theatre of the absurd. The dramatic content, symbolism, and spectacles are amazing to see but impossible to comprehend. The philosophy of the absurd and the dawn of mankind influenced these plays in the twentieth century. The main proponents and works of the theatre of…

In this book, he examined the works of a number of European playwrights of in the late sass, 1 9505 and 1 sass. According to him, these play. Frights gave dramatic articulation to Albert Camas’s philosophical essay, The Myth of Sisyphus. He named four playwrights as the pioneers of this surge of absurdness in theatre-…