We all watched painfully the theatre of the absurd played out in Nigeria when President Umaru Yar'Adua was ill.
"That is really like a twist from one of his absurd plays," said political analyst Jiří Pehe, Havel's collaborator and former adviser.
Diane Max, a major donor to Planned Parenthood, called the offer "an absurd play" and said Mr. Trump had been "sympathetic to a woman's right to choose until it was politically unpopular" for him.
The Absurd play, said Esslin, dispenses with conventional narrative in favour of the logic of dreams; furthermore, in a century stripped of certainties, the Absurd playwright understands that conversation, listened to closely, becomes "nonsensical illusions, empty chatter, whistling in the dark".
A posting Monday on Sohu, another Web portal, read, "Zhou is just one of the actors in this absurd play.
It's being called the worst fake punt in history, but that really doesn't do justice to the absurd play attempted by Indianapolis against New England on Sunday night.
Unable to move the ball all night -- the culmination of a putrid 20-36 fewerewer than 200 yards -- was an utterly absurd play-call to roll him out and throw on the Cowboys' 1-yard line in the game's waning moments.
"Here we are, in an utterly absurd position, playing political games as this public health crisis mounts here in our country," McConnell said.
With its dry humor, expert mime, versatile acting, skilled juggling, ventriloquism, splendid timing and keen sense of satire and the absurd, "The Post Man Delivers," playing five more performances, today through Sunday, has a sophisticated air about it.
While this may seem like an unnecessarily extreme measure, it is no more absurd than playing political football with the US -- and global -- economy at stake.
