MANIFESTATIONS OF ABSURDISM IN CONTEMPORARY DRAMA: A CAMUSIAN ANALYSIS OF ANNIE BAKER’S THE FLICK

Abstract

This article explores the manifestation of absurdity in the play The Flick by Annie Baker according to the perspective of Albert Camus' theory of the absurdism. Annie Baker's play The Flick is set in a run-down cinema that offers a microcosm for contemporary society, portrayal upon the repetitiveness, loneliness, and existential inquiring in its characters. It deals with problems such as hyper-consciousness of time and space in characters, felt imprisonment into mold of repetition, disappointment in social relationships and honest opinion, as ways to inform the tale of the expression of absurdity. It attempts to slim down on this ridiculous issue, by highlighting how Baker describes this tale as an exposure of modern employment and people's hunt for significance through this depression of an existential order in current society.