The Bald Soprano and Other Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs - Softcover

Eugene Ionesco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802130798 ISBN 13: 9780802130792

Publisher: Grove Press, 1982

Synopsis

The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugène Ionesco (1909-94) did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. As Ionesco has said, Theater is not literature. . . . It is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means.”

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Review:

Drama in 11 scenes by Eugene Ionesco, who called it an "antiplay." It was first produced in 1950 and published in 1954 as La Cantatrice chauve; the title is also translated The Bald Prima Donna. The play, an important example of the Theater of the Absurd, consists mainly of a series of meaningless conversations between two couples that eventually deteriorate into babbling. -- The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0802130798
• ISBN 13: 9780802130792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160