Although there is great diversity within modern European drama, there are parallels, threads, and reactions that connect them. This assortment of connections is sometimes tenuous, sometimes blatant, but always in some form linking plays by different European playwrights. The "theater of the absurd" contains works by many prominent playwrights of the mid-to-late 20th century, including Pinter, whose early plays revolved around issues such as the relationship between "the necessary and the possible or the 'being and non-being' (Innes. 1992b: 325). In particular, The Caretaker (Pinter. 2000) contains parallels to both theatricality and existentialism in Sartre's In Camera (1990). Theatrically, both plays take place in a single location; The Caretaker is set in a single room in a west London house (Pinter. 2000), while In Camera is set in a Second Empire-style drawing room (Sartre. 1990: 181). A parallel can also be drawn between the relationships between Aston & Davies in “The Caretaker” and those of Garcin, Inez and Estelle in In Camera. For example, Davies is annoyed by Aston, which leads to a verbal attack; while Aston is also annoyed by Davies, leading to a confrontation between the two (Pinter. 2000: 95-96 & 105-111). This is comparable to the idea according to which Garcin, Inez and Estelle will each act as the executioners of the others and that “hell is… the others” (Sartre. 1990: 195 & 223). The three main protagonists of In Huis Clos are bound together in hell; always linked to each other. This is evidenced by the fact that Garcin declares to Inès that “if you make a movement… Estelle and I feel a little tugging. Alone, none of us can save ourselves; we are bound together inextricably,” and also by the...... middle of paper ......uin Books LtdShakespeare, W. (1934) Hamlet. London: JM Dent & Sons LtdShakespeare, W. (1995) Richard III. London: Penguin Books LtdStrindberg, A. (1958) Miss Julia in three plays. London: Penguin GroupStoppard, T. (1984) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. London: Faber and Faber LimitedWikipedia. (2006a) Existentialism.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/existentialism December 19, 2006Wikipedia. (2006b) John Lennon.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/john_lennon December 17, 2006Wikipedia. (2006c) Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ludwig_wittgenstein December 11, 2006Wikipedia. (2006d) The Beatles.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki_the_beatles#_note-0 December 19, 2006Wittgenstein, L. (1974) Philosophical Investigations – Translated by GEManscombe: Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press