"The Theatre of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought." 

Theatre of the Absurd is based in ABSURDIST FICTION:

• focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life
  
• human existence has no meaning or purpose
• parody or dismissal of realism

Major Playwrights and plays
· Eugene Ionesco: The Chairs, The Lesson

· Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Endgame
· Harold Pinter: Pinter Sketches, The Birthday Party:
· Edward Albee: The Zoo Story, The Sand Box
· Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi