REGULAR BLOKE TRYING TO LIVE IN AN IRREGULAR WORLD

20 November 2008

Théâtre de l'Absurde



"Artistic articulation to Albert Camus' philosophy that life is inherently without meaning as illustrated in his work The Myth of Sisyphus. Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the "well-made play". -Wikipedia

Seriously ... Saturday Night Live in its' full-blown Ackroyd-Belushi heyday simply could not write anything nearly as good as this real thing ... although the "Bass-o-matic" came awfully close.

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