INTRINSIC DEMANDS
Form. "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful," says one of Beckett's characters in waiting for Godot. This play has also been described as one which "nothing happens--twice." The absurd theatre tends not to have any of the structural characteristics of well-made drama. There are no neatly plotted crises and climaxes, no discoveries and reversals to keep the audience on the edge of their seats, hardly any events as such, and no vertical plotting toward a grand climax and denouement. Nor do the plays have the conventional three-act structure, which presumes a beginning, middle, and end . The theater of the absurd is not logical and linear; it does not deal in tidy plost and clockwork formulas. In a formless, relativistic world, drama must reflect the in conclusiveness and lack of solutions that are the pattern of our daily lives.