Theatre of the Absurd

Theatre of the Absurd is a form of theare. Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay "Theatre of the Absurd." He related these plays based on a broad theme of the Absurd.

The conventional dramatic forms are abandoned in this form of dramatic performance.

Theatre of the Absurd portrays the futility of human struggle in a senseless world. Such a theatre developed in the late 1950s out of works of its exponents like Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter etc.

Their works expressed the belief that human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence.