"I decided I can't engage in absurd work.
Many critics, he said, "didn't know if it was an absurd work, realism — they could not name it.
Many critics, he said, "didn't know if it was an absurd work, realism they could not name it.
A famously hard-to-categorize artist, Mr. Gordon continues to make delightfully absurd works of dance-theater, with the elegant Ms. Setterfield as his performer and muse.
She's not even a latter-day Lara Croft, who, however absurd, works on screen because of Ms. Jolie's own outsize persona.
He noted the play does not compare with some of Durang's most absurd work, calling it "blander and thinner".
Alfie is an absurd figure, working out in the gym, popping Viagra pills and behaving as if he is a young buck about town.
But now try applying it to creative writing, especially to fiction and poetry, and it can sound absurd: "We worked for years on the character development and the voice, and when we finally nailed the subtle epiphany, we cracked open a bottle of Champagne to celebrate".
I understand those who feel that Deutschland 83 has teetered too far into the absurd to work as a serious drama, but I also felt that this week addressed many of those issues, giving us some good character development into the bargain.
The Slope was absurd and worked really well for a 5-minute Web series.
