Primacy meets the conventions set up by Martin Esslin about the theater of the absurd. The repetitive and meaningless dialogue, confusing situations along with unrealistic plots each of these present in the play represent the makeup that consist inside the absurd theater. There are also other multiple ways that make up this play as absurd.
One aspect of the absurd is that the plays are only limited in their setting along with what they do, and so is Primacy, “All the plays are restricted in space and in action” (Jacobus, 769). This is present in Dr. Harlan’s play when he uses only one setting: the house, the front yard and the backyard, or on the stage and offstage. The meaningless and repetition in the dialogue present in the play that is
One aspect of the absurd is that the plays are only limited in their setting along with what they do, and so is Primacy, “All the plays are restricted in space and in action” (Jacobus, 769). This is present in Dr. Harlan’s play when he uses only one setting: the house, the front yard and the backyard, or on the stage and offstage. The meaningless and repetition in the dialogue present in the play that is