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Absurdist Theater: LaVar Ball is a character in search of an author

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LaVar Ball is here and no one knows why. At one point there was basketball and then there was basketball with LaVar Ball. It is hard to imagine the sport without him (you can sigh now).

Similar to Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello’s metaphysical piece Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play that walks the line between reality and fantasy, LaVar Ball is a character that has appeared out of nowhere and is looking for his story to be written.

It is absurd, but what isn’t about LaVar Ball?

Pirandello’s complex theatrical play is about six Characters that appear out of nowhere, interrupting a Director who is working with his Actors (the Characters and Actors are two different groups of people).