1. plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless; - Example: "Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
theater of the absurd
n 1: 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"