Theatre of the Absurd appeared in Europe as a reaction to the cultural declines, of the European society, that results from the First and Second World Wars. Accordingly, the human's point of view of life and universe had changed. And literature went hand in hand with this change, trying to express the collapsing values and concepts via literary texts, specifically via novel, drama, and poetry. Jamce Joyce's novels, Marcel Proust's, Kafka's, AlberKamu's, and Sartre's writings showed the vision of the self and its dreams exemplifying the detachment of the group's discern. Moreover, the slogan of "Art is for Art Sake" emerged. Likely, drama reflected the world of loss and vanity as it is apparent in the plays of Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, John Jane, and Harlod Pinter. As well, futility stage spread in art, literature, and the entire world. Thus, there was a global movement of absurdity since the circumstances and situations of the European civilization existed and were achieved in other nations. Theatre of the Absurd became a modern trend in the universal writings as the Arabic ones because being influenced by this trend did not require a lot of research and verification, instead it became a phenomenon interspersing Arabic Literature during the 1960s and forth on due to the political and cultural contexts that intruded Arab World, exploiting the decadence that appeared because of the Arabs' aspirations after June War (1967) and its impacts of ideological, valuable, and target loss of the educated Arab and the literary writer ,in general, leading to the literary writer's adoption of the various techniques that complied with the ideological status he / she lives.Najeeb Mahfouz's novels and plays were in accordance with the context of the new transformational and influential literary trends. In addition, Mahfouz was known for being a novelist rather than a dramatist. Although he just wrote eight plays, we could find him affected by absurdity, while writing his plays, rather than any writer else. Therefore, this study aims at clarifying the effect of absurdity in one of Mahfouz's plays which is "The Chase" by comparing it with the most well-known play, written by the Irish writer, SaumelBecket, that is "Waiting for Godot.