Die Stühle
The characters in Absurdist drama are lost and floating in an incomprehensible universe and they abandon rational devices and discursive thought because these approaches are inadequate. Many characters appear as automatons stuck in routines speaking only in cliché (Ionesco called the Old Man and Old Woman in "The Chairs" "übermarionettes"). Characters are frequently stereotypical, archetypal, or flat character types as in Commedia dell'arte.