theater of the absurd

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   plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless

   “Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd”

   Broaderplay

Questions about theater of the absurd

What does theater of the absurd mean?

theater of the absurd means "plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless".

Is theater of the absurd a common word?

theater of the absurd is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.