Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs
The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco 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.
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Oh, how I love the Bald Soprano and the Lesson. The Bald Soprano is CLASSIC absurdism at its best.
And the Lesson is so dark and yet brilliant. The existential mathematics alone are just hilarious. This was my first introduction to Ionesco and to Theatre really when I read it with my theatre professor in front of class lo these 27 years ago! And I still love the play to this day. And not just because I had a crush on my theatre teacher.
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When you're writing fiction, you don't need to cling to worn-out realism to make the same strong points about life. Ionesco and a few others were masters of this uncanny art of storytelling and I would consider these plays a great guide for any curious writer.
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