Theatre of the Absurd, dramatic works of certain European and American dramatists of the 1950s and early ’60s who agreed with the Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’s assessment, in his essay “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1942), that the human situation is essentially absurd, devoid of purpose. The term is also loosely applied to those dramatists and the production of those works. Though no formal Absurdist movement existed as such, dramatists as diverse as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Harold Pinter, and a few others shared a pessimistic vision of humanity struggling vainly to find a purpose...
The Chairs came to be seen as a seminal example of the genre, highlighting the loneliness and futility of human existence.
The Chairs explores the lack of truth, reflecting the lies humans often tell themselves also the play is about communication between people. The Chairs is about people’s deluded communication with themselves, which reflects their innate isolation.
Eugene Ionesco 