![]() | The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.00 This is the definitive book on the Theatre of the Absurd--it was here that Martin Esslin coined the term.
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![]() | Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: $9.10 / Used from: $0.01 This is probably the most famous absurdist play--adored by those who like such things, despised by those who don't. Two tramps wait for a man named Godot. And wait. And wait...
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![]() | Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 A great selection of short absurdist plays. Ionesco was one of the "founders" of the movement.
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![]() | Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons by Wajdi Mouawad
Buy used from: $15.95 This play tells the story of a family which decides to go ahead with the marriage of their only daughter despite the bombs falling around them, despite the mother's unhappiness, despite the father's violence, despite the mental deficiency of the youngest son and the absence of the oldest son, and, above all, despite the fact the bridegroom doesn't exist.
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![]() | Three Plays of the Absurd by Walter Wykes
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $15.22 An exciting collection of modern absurdist tragicomedies--the author creates a series of modern myths, tapping into something in the strata of the subconscious. The worlds he creates are original and hilarious, yet each contains an ancient horror we all know and cannot escape and have never been able to hang one definitive word on.
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![]() | Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: $8.58 / Used from: $0.01 Beckett's second play--we have the impression of watching the end of something, the end possibly of the human race.
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![]() | Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 This play demonstrates Ionesco's anxiety about the spread of inhuman totalitarian tendencies in society as the entire population of a small, provincial French town turn into savage pachyderms.
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![]() | Reading The Apocalypse In Bed: Selected Plays and Short Pieces by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $9.95 Six astonishingly radical plays and ten short pieces from Tadeusz Rozewicz, one of the most important playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd to emerge from the aftermath of World War II.
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![]() | The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $2.70 Pinter's tale of a man who takes his wife on a visit to his childhood home where she becomes entangled in the family's dysfunctional past.
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![]() | The Balcony by Jean Genet
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Jean Genet's classic tale of revolution and illusion, set inside the Grand Balcony bordello.
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