While Vaclav Havel reportedly said -- at the hour of the Czechoslovakian liberation -- "Godot has come" -- in Iraq, most people have simply given up and left the theater.

In an introduction to Absurd Drama (1965) Martin Esslin writes, "The Theatre of the Absurd attacks the comfortable certainties of religious or political orthodoxy.

But as young writers become mature writers their needs change, and drawing talent into the theatre sector and keeping it there have become urgent matters of recognising those needs.

In mid-20th century France, there developed a school of writing which was sometimes called the Theatre of the Absurd.

“Spamalot,” a Tony Award-winning musical, will fill the third slot of Lyric Theatre’s 2014 summer season in Oklahoma City.

This is not simply security theatre, as some people call it. This is Security Theatre of the Absurd. One day, our grandchildren will marvel at our preposterous approach to self-defence.

Born in 1898, Magritte had to earn a living designing wallpaper and then drawing posters for an advertising agency before he successfully broke into the art world.

Guess what? It is draw at the top. Nothing will change anyway in their absurd cruelty to Arabs, whatever permutations are employed!