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DESCRIPTION:### Context\nIn postwar France\, a number of playwrights wrote 
 and staged a number of avant-garde plays that express what happens when ex
 istence lacks ultimate meaning\, communication breaks down\, and we confro
 nt\, in the words of Albert Camus\, *"la tendre indifférance du monde"*\,
  the tender indifference of the world. Taken together\, these plays form t
 he Theatre of the Absurd.\n\nYou may have read or seen one of these plays\
 ; it's not unusual to see Samuel Beckett's *Waiting for Godot* or Eugène 
 Ionesco's *Bald Soprano* in high school curricula or survey-level universi
 ty syllabi\, and many works of the movement are still produced around the 
 world today.\n\n### Competition\nThis series of fiction competitions takes
  inspiration from the Theatre of the Absurd. The prompts won't require you
  to push the boundaries of form or confront deep philosophical questions\,
  though you are certainly welcome to. Instead\, each competition will offe
 r scenarios based on a specific absurdist play. You'll have one week each 
 to write a short fiction (maximum 2\,000 words) about how your character a
 cts in that situation and how it comes to a conclusion\, if indeed it *doe
 s* come to a conclusion.\n\n### Rules & Scoring\n\n* Each week there will 
 be a new prompt that shows up when you subscribe to the appropriate compet
 ition. There will be a total of **four** competitions and prompts.\n* Fict
 ions must be **500 words minimum** to qualify for participation and placem
 ent. Each fiction may not exceed a **2\,000 word maximum.**\n* Submissions
  must be **PDF or DOCX file formats**. Links to Google Docs or other platf
 orms that can be edited after the fact will be disqualified.\n* Fictions w
 ill be evaluated according to the [standard fiction rubric](https://docs.g
 oogle.com/spreadsheets/d/125hThvIEweRL-nHDepON-PV-ixeC8zLp9xmYkI9wkM0/edit
 ?gid=0#gid=0).\n* Each first place win earns **5 points** in the container
  competition\, second place earns **4 points**\, third place earns **3 poi
 nts**\, and participation earns **1 point**. Ties will be broken by number
  of placements\, followed by number of participations.
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SUMMARY:Space Opera of the Absurd
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