Major successes include Absurd Person Singular ( 1975 ), The Norman Conquests trilogy ( 1973 ), Bedroom Farce ( 1975 ), Just Between Ourselves ( 1976 ), A Chorus of Disapproval ( 1984 ), Woman in Mind ( 1985 ), A Small Family Business ( 1987 ), Man Of The Moment ( 1988 ), House & Garden ( 1999 ) and Private Fears in Public Places ( 2004 ).

She appeared in " Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets, alongside Sean Bean and Owen Teale in 1989, Our Own Kind ( Bush, 1991 ), Deadly Advice ( Fletcher, 1993 ), Cabaret ( Donmar Warehouse, 1994 ), Macbeth ( Greenwich Theatre, 1995 ) and Absurd Person Singular ( Garrick Theatre, 2007 ).

Page received her second Tony nomination ( for Best Featured Actress in a Play ) for a successful production of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular with Sandy Dennis and Richard Kiley.

Her stage credits include Elvira in Blithe Spirit, Margaret in Absurd Person Singular, Helena in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Helen in Half a Sixpence, Angelica in Love for Love, and Erica in Prisoner Cell Block H: The Stage Play.

* 1973 – Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn

Having been hired as host of the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman game show Showoffs, Blyden left the cast of the Broadway production of the Alan Ayckbourn comedy Absurd Person Singular and videotaped a pilot for the game show on May 24th.

Additional Broadway theatre credits include The Chalk Garden ( Tony nomination and Theatre World Award win ), All American, Baker Street, Absurd Person Singular, Love Letters, and The Crucible.

In dramas: Madeleine Cranmere in Malice Aforethought, Lady Eileen ' Bundle ' Brent in The Seven Dials Mystery, Eva Jackson in Absurd Person Singular, Caroline Ashurst in A Winter Harvest, Elizabeth Fellowes in A Sort of Innocence, Maria Wearing in Centrepoint, Louie Williams in Fantabulosa.

* 1974: Absurd Person Singular

* 2007-Young British actress Billie Piper makes her stage debut in a new production of Christopher Hampton's Treats, Bad Girls: The Musical, Absurd Person Singular

From 1994 to 1996, Marvel Comics published a monthly Beavis and Butt-Head comic under the Marvel Absurd imprint by a variety of writers, but with each issue drawn by artist Rick Parker.

Much of Beckett's work – including Godot – is often considered by philosophical and literary scholars to be part of the movement of the Theatre of the Absurd, a form of theatre which stemmed from the Absurdist philosophy of Albert Camus.

* The Absurd Hero by Bob Lane

The Theatre of the Absurd () is a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.

The Absurd in these plays takes the form of man ’ s reaction to a world apparently without meaning, and / or man as a puppet controlled or menaced by invisible outside forces.

" The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd, but rather, the Absurd arises by the contradictory nature of the two existing simultaneously.

Absurdism is very closely related to existentialism and nihilism and has its origins in the 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who chose to confront the crisis humans faced with the Absurd by developing existentialist philosophy.

Camus endorsed this solution, believing that by accepting the Absurd, one can achieve absolute freedom, and that by recognizing no religious or other moral constraints and by revolting against the Absurd while simultaneously accepting it as unstoppable, one could possibly be content from the personal meaning constructed in the process.

* Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia, by Mark Salzman ( 1996 ), 288 pages, Ridgefield native reflects on the idiosyncrasies and absurdities of suburban Connecticut life.

Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters, written in a style associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.

" His style was described by Robert Fulford as " bring to public affairs the dark comedy developed in the Theatre of the Absurd.

The term " Theatre of the Absurd " was coined by Martin Esslin to describe a tendency in theatre in the 1950s ; he related it to Albert Camus's concept of the absurd.

The dog was named after Ubu Roi, an 1896 play by Alfred Jarry that is considered a precursor to the Theatre of the Absurd.

Founded in 1928 by Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky, OBERIU became notorious for provocative performances which included circus-like stunts, readings of what was perceived as nonsensical verse, and theatrical presentations, such as Kharms's Elizabeth Bam, that foreshadowed the European Theatre of the Absurd.

The creation of in-yer-face theatre parallels the history of more-prevalently accepted literary-critical coinages by critics like Martin Esslin ( Theatre of the Absurd ), who extended the existential philosophical concept of the Absurd to drama and theatre in his 1961 book of that title, and Irving Wardle ( Comedy of menace ), who borrowed the phrase from the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace, by David Campton, in 1958 reviews of productions of Campton's play and of The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, applying Campton's subtitle to Pinter's work.

Additionally, he further illustrates the human reaction towards the " absurd "; The Plague represents how the world deals with the philosophical notion of the Absurd, a theory which Camus himself helped to define.

Because of the world's absurdity, at any point in time, anything can happen to anyone, and a tragic event could plummet someone into direct confrontation with the Absurd.

Thus humanity is doomed to be faced with the Absurd, or the absolute absurdity of existence in lack of intrinsic purpose.

Thematically, the Absurd overrides Responsibility ; despite his physical terror, Meursault is satisfied with his death ; his discrete sensory perceptions only physically affect him, and thus are relevant to his self and his being, i. e. in facing death, he finds revelation and happiness in the " gentle indifference of the world ".

Playwrights commonly associated with the Theatre of the Absurd include Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal and Edward Albee.

Though the label " Theatre of the Absurd " covers a wide variety of playwrights with differing styles, they do have some common stylistic precursors ( Esslin ).

Though layered with a significant amount of tragedy, the Theatre of the Absurd echoes other great forms of comedic performance, according to Esslin, from Commedia dell ' arte to Vaudeville.

The Theatre of the Absurd is commonly associated with Existentialism, and Existentialism was an influential philosophy in Paris during the rise of the Theatre of the Absurd ; however, to call it Existentialist theatre is problematic for many reasons.

# Absurd ( original title: Rosso Sangue ; alternate titles: The Monster Hunter, Anthropophagus 2 ) – released theatrically with 2 minutes 32 seconds cut in 1983.

In Camus ' anti-suicide treatise, Don Juan is one of three ' Absurd Men ', ' heroes ' who overcome life with their attitude.

He also wrote a number of plays which might be loosely categorized with the Theatre of the Absurd, among them " The Goat Painter " and " The Half-Moon Window ".

In 1992, Fleshcrawl signed a recording contract with Black Mark Productions, and on June 1992, they recorded their debut studio album, Descend Into The Absurd, at Montezuma Studios.

Since the launch of their website in 2000, The Absurd have posted an Advent Calendar every December, with a different song and image for every day of December through the 24th.

In a reference to Artaud's concept of a Theatre of the Absurd, in 1965 Tavel promoted the first " Ridiculous " performances with the one-line manifesto: " We have passed beyond the absurd: our position is absolutely preposterous.

He graduated in 1983 with a degree in scenography from the Accademia di Belle Arti " Pietro Vannucci " in Perugia with two theses, one on scenography in the Theatre of the Absurd and one in history of art on the concepts of space and time as expressed in art.

* D ' Amato followed up this movie with a pseudo-sequel, Absurd ( 1981, also known as Zombie 6: Monster Hunter.

He is often associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.