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كلية الآداب | College of Arts

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    Divergent Conceptions of the Absurdity of Human Existence in Three Saudi Plays
    (2023) Sarah K. Aldossary; Wafaa A. Mostafa Hussein
    Saudi Arabia has undergone tremendous political, economic, and social changes that have profoundly impacted every facet of life in the Kingdom. These transformative developments have inspired Saudi playwrights to conspicuously investigate these themes and convey their attitudes toward the profound changes within the realm of theatre. Even though Saudi Arabia strives to occupy a prominent global position in the artistic and theatrical domain, Saudi Theatre has to be profoundly explored, especially in English. Academic and critical studies are still needed to investigate Saudi drama. Hence, the current study aims to enrich and contribute to the academic research on Saudi theatre in English by presenting a multifarious reading of Saudi drama and bringing forth the playwrights' divergent individual reasoning on the question of existence that can aid others in perceiving life. The research traces the history of The Theatre of the Absurd. It investigates the general framework by offering historical material that explores the essential factors that contributed to the emergence of the Theatre of the Absurd and provides the major characteristics of the Absurd drama and how Saudi playwrights utilize and adopt the concepts and technical presentations of the Absurd to suit the cultural and social context of their society. It relates the topic of Absurdism to the current realities of different people and the way each playwright rebels against the absurdity of human existence. The research depicts three Saudi plays: The Book of Margins (2006) by Fahad Alharthi, Nostalgia (2016) by Saleh Zamanan, and Funeral (2017) by Ibrahim Al-Harthi. It investigates the absurdity of human existence by presenting different perspectives within the Saudi cultural context. The three dramatists demonstrate the absurdity of human existence and explore several philosophical questions. The research investigates the death/ life antithesis depicted in the three selected Saudi plays, focusing on the obsession with the inevitability of death as presented in the three selected plays. It seeks to reveal each playwright's distinct perspectives and individual styles in representing the concept of death in relation to the absurdity of human existence. In analyzing the dramatic texts, Martin Esslin's classic book The Theatre of the Absurd (1961) and his other published articles concerning the Theatre of the Absurd are utilized as the fundamental theoretical framework