Playboy After Hours
December, 1971
When Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot premiered at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953, modern drama was transformed virtually overnight into a sounding board for a new and revolutionary kind of playwright--the spokesman for existentialist or absurdist modes of thought. The theater of the absurd was born, and as the names of its prophets quickly proliferated (Ionesco, Pinter, Albee, et al.), the mood of spiritual and psychic malaise that permeated their work became a powerful influence in...
