The festival promises to be as thorough and wide-ranging an introduction to absurdism as local audiences are apt to ...

Born on April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett remains one of Ireland ... He became one of the main writers associated with “The Theatre of the Absurd,” a selection of mainly European playwrights ...

Isn’t it all a bit absurd? Right now, the quite brilliant Gary Oldman ... Dunbar also appeared in the same theatre in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, playing a woman trapped in a pile of rising dirt that ...

Prezzo Ruto’s fabled tour of Mt Kenya was a well curated and scripted performance in a tradition called theatre of the absurd, which is associated with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s ...

Or maybe we feel the echoes still. Dublin Theatre Festival recently acquired a letter that Samuel Beckett wrote on January 20th, 1958, warning that he might withdraw from that year’s event.

The French Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco was one of the key figures of 20th-century theatre, a pioneer of what came to be known as Theatre of the Absurd, a regular study ... theatre alongside ...