"The Bald Soprano", and Other Plays

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.

List of contents

The bald soprano -- The lesson -- Jack; or, The submission -- The chairs.

Summary

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.”

Product details

• Authors: Donald M. Allen, Eugaene Ionesco, Eugene Ionesco
• Assisted by: Donald M. Allen (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.1994
• EAN: 9780802130792
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3079-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 204 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; France, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, c 1950 to c 1959, Plays, Playscripts, CULTURAL HERITAGE / French, Relating to late adulthood / old age, translation;absurd;comic;tragedy;funny