Theatre of the Absurd Waiting for Godot and Zoo Story
Absurd Theatre has stylistic features that differ greatly from other theatre genres such as realism and naturalism. Two such plays that provide evidence of such stylistic features are "Waiting For Godot", by Samuel Beckett, and "Zoo Story", by Edward Albee. One of the main stylistic features of "Waiting For Godot" is the structure reflecting theme. ... The situation that the characters are in at the beginning of the act, where they are wating for this mysterious Godot, remains through the entire play and is the situation at the end. ... This is basically the same as in "Zoo Story". ... Jerry tells Peter that he has been to the zoo, but every time he gets sidetracked and go off on a different tangent, but then returns to the same idea.