The Birthday Party has been described (some say "pigeonholed") by Irving Wardle and later critics as a "comedy of menace"[9] and by Martin Esslin as an example of the Theatre of the Absurd.[10] It includes such features as the fluidity and ambiguity of time, place, and identity and the disintegration of language.[10][11]
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