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All about the Theater of the Absurd! We need it NOW more than EVER!

Playwrights commonly associated with the Theater of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett, Eugene Lonesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello, Tom Stoppard, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and so many more.

In his 1965 book, "Absurd Drama," critic Martin Esslin wrote:

"The Theatre of the Absurd attacks the comfortable certainties of religious or political orthodoxy. It aims to shock its audience out of complacency, to bring it face to face with the harsh facts of the human situation as these writers see it. But the challenge behind this message is anything but one of despair. It is a challenge to accept the human condition as it is, in all its mystery and absurdity, and to bear it with dignity, nobly, responsibly; precisely because there are no easy solutions to the mysteries of existence, because ultimately man is alone in a meaningless world. The shedding of easy solutions, of comforting illusions, may be painful, but it leaves behind it a sense of freedom and relief. And that is why, in the last resort, the Theatre of the Absurd does not provoke tears of despair but the laughter of liberation."

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