Absurd drama is not concerned with the representation of events, the telling of a story, or the depiction of a character as much as it is the presentation of individuals within a situation in such a way as to communicate their experience of existence. The plays tend to be many-layered poetic image that have to be intuited in depth rather than rationally followed through a linear development in time. The situation is full of activity, none of which, however, changes the situation in the least. The plays are stuffed with the trivia of daily existence and employ theatrical effects in a wholesale manner--circus clowning, music hall backchat, farce, ritual--to show the endless and futile ways in which humans attempt to fill the vacuum of their existence. The case is never argued; it is presented through concrete images of the absurd in action. Humans seen as an actor in a cosmic face. with no accepted values all experience is equally serious, equally ludicrous. lonesco observed: "It all comes to the same thing-comic and tragic are two aspects of the same situation; it is now hard to distinguish one from the other."3 Laughter tempers the reality of despair and makes comedy the bedfellow of pathos.