Absurd Quote by Martin Esslin

“The theater of the absurd represented a contrast to realistic theater. Its aim was to show the lack of meaning in life in order…

— Jostein Gaarder

The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is,…

— Martin Esslin

All theatre is absurd.

— Eugene Ionesco

The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our…

— Martin Esslin

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be forgotten. This…

— Albert camus

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

— Thomas Nagel

“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and…

— Iris Murdoch

“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and…

— Iris Murdoch

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the…

— Andre Breton

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the…

— Simon McBurney

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and…

— Christoph Waltz