Surrealism is an influential artistic and literary movement that emerged in the early twentieth century, inspired by the theories of Sigmund Freud and the exploration of the unconscious mind. In American drama, Surrealism challenged the conventions of realistic theatre by presenting dream-like situations, symbolic characters, irrational events, and unexpected shifts in time and space. Rather than depicting everyday reality, surrealist plays attempt to reveal deeper psychological truths hidden beneath conscious experience. American playwrights adapted surrealist techniques to explore themes such as identity, alienation, desire, fear, and the conflict between reality and illusion. The movement encouraged dramatists to use fantasy, fragmented dialogue, bizarre imagery,