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In contemporary drama the stage has developed from being just a space where one expressed oneself to a space with symbolic significations. The connotative meanings associated with stagecraft today has taken on importance such that it has become the defining element of the dramatic piece itself.This paper will elaborate how absurd can be defined in the American contemporary drama. The reality required and maintained in American drama is quite different from European drama in that one tends for an abstract sense of reality while in the other stage itself becomes the subject of the absurd. Albee's Zoo Story an american absurd drama gives us an inside look into what actually compromises the notion of absurd in American contemporary drama. The absurd in American contemporary drama can be defined as an abnormal situation created due to lack of communication in the modern society. The reality staged is a mirrored reflection of the society we inhabit. Through this mirrored reality the audience sees the reflection of oneself which is the very essence that which the absurd theatre tries to recreate. By recreating reality through illusion the drama conveys to the audience that the staged play is infect real and that we live in a society that is very much in conflict. The reality recreated on stage is the very method by which the absurd is communicated to the audience.