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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Oscar winner and veteran actor Gary Oldman will return to the British stage in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at the York Theatre Royal next spring. Oldman, currently the star of AppleTV+ hit ...

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 ...