avant-garde, mid-20th-cent. drama made up of apparently absurd, incongruous, or pointless situations and dialogue, typically expressing the existential nature of self-isolation, anxiety, frustration, etc.
Examples of 'theater of the absurd' in a sentence
theater of the absurd
For them, trial was theater, at times the theater of the absurd, and the longest-runningshow around was right here in this old building.