![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At other times, both dialogue and incidents may appear to the audience as completely nonsensical, even farcical. Events are completely outside the realm of rational motivation and may have a nightmarish quality commonly associated with Surrealism (a post- World War I movement that features dream sequences and images from the unconscious, often sexual in nature). Characters are often nameless and seem interchangeable. Characterized by a departure from realistic characters and situations, the plays offer no clear notion of the time or place in which the action occurs. The term "Theatre of the Absurd" was coined by critic Martin Esslin, who identified common features of a new style of drama that seemed to ignore theatrical conventions and thwart audience expectations. Absurdism, and its more specific companion term Theatre of the Absurd, refers to the works of a group of Western European and American dramatists writing and producing plays in the 1950s and early 1960s. ![]()
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