Theatre of the Absurd was a term coined by theatre critic Martin Esslin in 1960 to describe a movement of largely European playwrights – Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter to name a few. They tackled, in their mainly non-linear, seemingly illogical plays, the tragi-comic delusions of characters adrift in an arbitrary universe devoid of, and resistant to, any kind of meaning or purpose.
