How is the play, Tiny Alice, an example of the Theatre of the Absurd?

The Theater of the Absurd was a post-World War II dramatic trend characterized by radical theatrical innovations. In these works, nontraditional characterizations, plots, and stage sets reveal a meaningless universe in which human values are irrelevant. Absurdist drama features a vision of bewildered and anxious humanity struggling to find a purpose. Traditional aspects of support, such as religion and society, have often collapsed. By the mid-1960s, many absurdist innovations had been absorbed into mainstream theater.

Some critics find Tiny Alice an absurdist drama. Albee first was categorized with the major absurdist playwrights Eugene lonesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Harold Pinter after the staging of his first play, Zoo Story. Like these European absurdists, Albee has also tried to dramatize the reality of humanity's condition. Albee differs from them in that he focuses on the illusions that screen humans from reality instead of on life's alogical absurdity. Julian, for example, uses his belief in God to shield him from the hypocrisy of religion and his own repressed sexuality.