Elegant Anarchy: A Practitioner's Theory of Contemporary Absurdism

Elegant Anarchy: A Practitioner's Theory of Contemporary Absurdism

What happens to absurdist theatre after Beckett, Pinter, and Ionesco?

In Elegant Anarchy, playwright and attorney Brian S. Brijbag proposes a new framework for understanding contemporary absurdist drama. Drawing on both theatre scholarship and original dramatic works, the book argues that the central concerns of absurdism have not disappeared. They have evolved.

Where classical absurdism often approached meaning through silence...