Theatre of the Absurd & Fantasy?

Question

I'm currently having a brief overview of the history of drama and theatres, but I don't get the difference between the theatre of the absurd & fantasy. Both of them jumps out of the logical framework and I simply don't understand it.

Answer 1

Theatre of Absurd is when the reality is "broken" in a rupture of logic, contexte. Take for example the judges from Monty Python who are (under) dressed up with stalkings.
Theatre of Fantasy takes the premise of the reality of the siauation and expands it, transpose it into an imaginary world.

Answer 2

Ionescu was the originator of T of the Absurd with his 1948 short play, 'The Bald Prima Donna'. You might get his definition if you look these up on the net. Whose work are you considering in the Fantasy genre? Maybe the net has stuff on them too.
As an actor, my feeling is Absurdism is deliberately illogical & tries to destroy possibility of a satisfactory conclusion. but Fantasy makes dreams end happily or horrifically but always logically, within its fantastical world.
Hey, now I'm questioning my own assessments. G'd luck, Art

Answer 3

"Theater of the Absurd" is a term popularized by critic/director Martin Esslyn to describe the stylized, often symbolic drama that emerged primarily in Europe after, an in answer to, World War II. So-called absurdist playwrights include Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, early Edward Albee, Fernando Arabal (sp?). Fantasy loosely describes works with supernatural or magical elements.

Answer 4

Theatre of the Absurd is based on the premise that man is an illogical being in a very logcial universe.

Fantasy is the flight of fancy into a word of complete imagination.