Robert Gurik's plays are constant interrogations of society and the theater. He poses questions but does not give answers. According to Gurik in a 1978 interview with Adrien Gruslin: "mon théâtre pose des questions, analyse des problèmes, montre ce qui n'est pas évident. Je ne pense pas que le théâtre soit un object pamphlétaire. Il est plutôt un révélateur, un déclencheur" (My theater raises questions, analyzes problems, reveals what is not immediately apparent. I do not think that the theater has the same objective as a pamphlet. Rather, it is a source of revelation, a setting in motion).

Gurik feels an affinity with the theater of Brecht both in its social concern and its tendency to question the validity of accepted values and ideas. This outlook contrasts with the Aristotelian...