The Theatre Of The Absurd

In 1953, Samuel Beckett�s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents�Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others�shattered dramatic conventions and paid …