1 In the history of drama, Albee has been canonized as the primary American practitioner of what critic Martin Esslin has termed the "Theater of the Absurd".

2 People like me who relish political theater of the absurd will miss the "Leader; "but most of his people, I suspect, will not.

3 It's time to end this theater of the absurd. It's time for us to get real.

4 Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd.

5 I didn't really know how to carve, but as a scriptwriter I had been influenced by the French theater of the absurd, especially Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Ionesco's The Bald Soprano.

6 The article generally and systematically examines the major dramatists and works of the theater of the absurd in the Qing Dynasty.

7 So I decided to try to carve a kind of theater of the absurd in wood.

8 Harold Pinter is a great contemporary British playwright, who has made great contribution to the theater of the absurd.

9 Similarly, the debate on bailing out Detroit's three auto makers often seems to play out in a theater of the absurd.