Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun theater_of_the_absurd

1 sense of theater of the absurd

Sense 1
theater of the absurd -- (plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless; "Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd")
       => play, drama, dramatic play -- (a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway")