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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_absurd
 [[André P. Brink]] 1974. ''Aspekte van die Nuwe Drama''. Pretoria: [[Academica]]. (Tweede uitgawe, 1986)
 [[André P. Brink]] 1978. Afrikaans theatre: the contemporary scene. ''Theatre Quarterly'', 7(28):71-76.
 Return to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 [[André P. Brink]] 1978. Afrikaans theatre: the contemporary scene. ''Theatre Quarterly'', 7(28):71-76.
-Conradie, 1992, Haffter, 1992, Odendaal, 1978.
+Odendaal, 1978.
 Return to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 [[André P. Brink]] 1978. Afrikaans theatre: the contemporary scene. ''Theatre Quarterly'', 7(28):71-76.
-Brink, 1978, Conradie, 1992, Haffter, 1992, Odendaal, 1978.
+Conradie, 1992, Haffter, 1992, Odendaal, 1978.
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-[[André P. Brink|Brink, André P.]] 1974. ''Aspekte van die Nuwe Drama''. Pretoria: [[Academica]]. (Tweede uitgawe, 1986)
+[[André P. Brink]] 1974. ''Aspekte van die Nuwe Drama''. Pretoria: [[Academica]]. (Tweede uitgawe, 1986)
 Brink, 1978, Conradie, 1992, Haffter, 1992, Odendaal, 1978.

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		+	[[André P. Brink\|Brink, André P.]] 1974. ''Aspekte van die Nuwe Drama''. Pretoria: [[Academica]]. (Tweede uitgawe, 1986)

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−	In general terms this is the name coined by Esslin to refer to works of theatre heavily influenced by the philosophical nihilism of Sarte, Camus and others, plays in which the focus is on the depiction of man cut off from his roots: religious, cultural, intellectual and existential. He appears lost in a universe that apparently makes no sense. Among the primary formal examples of "[[absurdist]] playwrights" are Samuel Beckett (e.g. ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''), Eugene Ionesco (e.g. ''[[La Cantatrice Chauve]]'' - known in English as ''[[The Bald Primadonna]]'' or ''[[The Bald Soprano]]''), Harold Pinter (''[[The Caretaker]]''), Edward Albee (e.g. ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'').	+	In general terms this is the name coined by Esslin to refer to works of theatre heavily influenced by the philosophical nihilism of Sarte, Camus and others, plays in which the focus is on the depiction of man cut off from his roots: religious, cultural, intellectual and existential. He appears lost in a universe that apparently makes no sense. Among the primary formal examples of "[[absurdist]] playwrights" are Samuel Beckett (e.g. ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''), Eugene Ionesco (e.g. ''[[La Cantatrice Chauve]]'' - known in English as ''[[The Bald Primadonna]]'' or ''[[The Bald Soprano]]''), Fernando Arrabal (''[[Guernica]]''), Harold Pinter (''[[The Caretaker]]'') and Edward Albee (e.g. ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'').
−	~~– translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna – is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco~~.

	== [[Theatre of the Absurd]] in South Africa ==		== [[Theatre of the Absurd]] in South Africa ==

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−	In general terms this is the name coined by Esslin to refer to works of theatre heavily influenced by the philosophical nihilism of Sarte, Camus and others, plays in which the focus is on the depiction of man cut off from his roots: religious, cultural, intellectual and existential. He appears lost in a universe that apparently makes no sense. Among the primary formal examples of "[[absurdist]] playwrights" are Samuel Beckett (e.g. ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''), Eugene Ionesco (e.g. ''[[La Cantatrice ~~chauve~~]]'' - known in English as ''[[The Bald Primadonna]]'' or ''[[The Bald Soprano]]''), Harold Pinter (''[[The Caretaker]]''), Edward Albee (e.g. ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'').	+	In general terms this is the name coined by Esslin to refer to works of theatre heavily influenced by the philosophical nihilism of Sarte, Camus and others, plays in which the focus is on the depiction of man cut off from his roots: religious, cultural, intellectual and existential. He appears lost in a universe that apparently makes no sense. Among the primary formal examples of "[[absurdist]] playwrights" are Samuel Beckett (e.g. ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''), Eugene Ionesco (e.g. ''[[La Cantatrice Chauve]]'' - known in English as ''[[The Bald Primadonna]]'' or ''[[The Bald Soprano]]''), Harold Pinter (''[[The Caretaker]]''), Edward Albee (e.g. ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'').
	– translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna – is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco.		– translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna – is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco.

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−	In general terms this is the name coined by Esslin to refer to works of theatre heavily influenced by the philosophical nihilism of Sarte, Camus and others, plays in which the focus is on the depiction of man cut off from his roots: religious, cultural, intellectual and existential. He appears lost in a universe that apparently makes no sense. Among the primary formal examples of "[[absurdist]] playwrights" are Samuel Beckett (e.g. ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''), Eugene Ionesco (e.g. ''[[La Cantatrice chauve]]'' (known in English as ''[[The Bald Primadonna]]'' or ''[[The Bald Soprano]]''), Harold Pinter (''[[The Caretaker]]''), Edward Albee (e.g. ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'').	+	In general terms this is the name coined by Esslin to refer to works of theatre heavily influenced by the philosophical nihilism of Sarte, Camus and others, plays in which the focus is on the depiction of man cut off from his roots: religious, cultural, intellectual and existential. He appears lost in a universe that apparently makes no sense. Among the primary formal examples of "[[absurdist]] playwrights" are Samuel Beckett (e.g. ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''), Eugene Ionesco (e.g. ''[[La Cantatrice chauve]]'' - known in English as ''[[The Bald Primadonna]]'' or ''[[The Bald Soprano]]''), Harold Pinter (''[[The Caretaker]]''), Edward Albee (e.g. ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'').
	– translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna – is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco.		– translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna – is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco.