ABSTRACT
In The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre John Russell Taylor writes: Absurd, Theatre of the. Term applied to a group of dramatists in the 1950s who did not regard themselves as a school but who all seemed to share certain attitudes towards the predicament of man in the universe: essentially those summarized by albert camus in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus. The poetic drama would seem to have been dead before either Angry or Absurd dramas reached the stage. The division between Anger and Absurd, between, Brecht and Ionesco, was summed up by Kenneth Tynan: where Ionesco says misery is constant Brecht would argue that some kinds of misery are curable, and after they have been cured there will be time to look at the universal ones. In New English Dramatists 12 Irving Wardle writes of a body of work known as the theatre of the absurd: Its characteristics are: the substitution of an inner landscape for the outer world.
