WordNet
theater of the absurd
n. plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless; "Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd"
Usage examples of "theater of the absurd".
Such a set would heighten the sense that the play is not strictly realistic, but has overtones of the Theater of the Absurd.
Bemused, the captain watched the android explain the entire thing in earnest, grave tones, though what they were actually about to do had a touch of the theater of the absurd about it.
The actors of the nocturnal Theater of the Absurd insisted on return engagements, performances which they, not the patrons, commanded.