GRAND GUIGNOL
A short drama stressing HORROR and SENSATIONALISM
THEATER OF THE ABSURD
Theater in which standard or naturalistic conventions of plot, characterization and thematic structures are ignored or distorted in order to convey the IRRATIONAL or fictive* nature of reality and the essential isolation of humanity in a meaningless world
*FICTIVE. Fictitious. Imaginary. LIES
PUNCH & JUDY puppet show
Features slapstick humor(like the 3 stooges hitting one another over the head with CELERY) and the tragicomic misadventures of the grotesque hook-nosed humpback buffoon Punch and his wife Judy