The most exciting theatre of the mid-20th century is that of the absurdist, particularly Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet. They dazzle us, first with a fine control of craft, with the precisely appropriate setting, stage dynamics, and language. Beckett's near-empty landscapes, his reduction of physical movement to a minimum, his sparse, austere and wonderful poetry - all these qualities significantly and largely contributed to the development of the absurdist theatre. The playwrights …showed first 75 words of 1682 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1682 total…'Absurd' is not used in the sense of ridiculous, but in the sense of 'out of harmony'. Eugene Ionesco observes - "Absurd is that which is devoid of purpose. Cut off from his religions, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless." 'Waiting for Godot' studies human situation, man's existential problems, life, death, God, salvation, alienation, loneliness, suffering, helplessness, loss of meaning, purpose in life, and loss of faith.