The Theater of the Absurd is a new form of drama after The Second World War. Playwrights of the Theater of the Absurd reveal the conditions of human beings’ existence in modern society. This paper analyzes the artistic features and themes of the Theater of the Absurd.

OBJECTIVE To determine the safety of definitive in-theater facial fracture repair on American military personnel wounded during Operation Iraqi Freedom. METHODS A retrospective review of all patients with head and neck trauma treated at the 322nd Expeditionary Medical Group/Air Force Theater Hospital, Balad Air Base, Iraq, from May 7, 2005, through September 18, 2005, was performed. This stud...

The present article describes participatory theater as a means of empowering audience individuals to lead social change. The focus on participation by oppressed individuals as a means of organizing for social change was recognized as important by scholars and practitioners, especially by the celebrated Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and the Brazilian theater activist, Augusto Boal. Here we d...

This article examines the tendencies of LGBT intergenerational theater projects. By engaging with ideas of queer time, temporal drag, and the pervasive heteronormative imagery of heritability and inheritance, this article explores the possibility that LGBT intergenerational projects may generate some of the problems they aim to challenge. Through the lens of queer time, the article describes th...

Africa has faced problems in the area of media communication due to a lack of resources, technology and manpower and poor planning. In recent years, Africans have begun to argue the point of a need for comprehensive communications planning that considers economic limitations. An effective form of education and communication for Africa should present information in an inexpensive, ad hoc manne...

in iran and many other countries of the world, varieties of religious theaters have been created based on numinous and spiritual principles and beliefs, and believe in eternity which have inveterate origins and bases and even some of them are ritual; theater ritual origin has emphasized on religious roots and bases of theater, which have been called social, cultural, communicational, and artist...

The subject of this article is the question of improved quality in the Dutch theater, roughly in the period 1860—1914. In essence it will statistically test the dominant historiographical narrative, which treats the era from 1875—1914 as a period of recovery of the stage after a decline which set in after about 1815 and which claims a related charge in social class base. Using the immense theat...

The article follows the attempt to negotiate “stage directions” in Elfriede Jelinek's theater texts as “scenic passages”. These take on mediating or translating functions between persona staged “author” and institution of one hand, text performance other. To elaborate modes operation passages,” resorts a research perspective directed from field “notation.” basic assumption is that such focus ma...

Modern technical devices are often too complex for many users to be able to use them to their full extent. Based on planning technology, we are able to provide advanced user assistance for operating technical devices. We present a system that assists a human user in setting up a complex home theater consisting of several HiFi devices. For a human user, the task is rather challenging due to a la...