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The Chairs (French: Les Chaises) is a one-act play by Eugène Ionesco, described as an absurdist "tragic farce".It was first performed in Paris in 1952. [1]For Ionesco's Sandaliha (The Chairs), Bahman Mohasses [2] created a number of decorative and expressive chairs that when put together suggested an abstract forest.
Eugène Ionesco (French: [øʒɛn jɔnɛsko]; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: [e.uˈdʒen joˈnesku] ⓘ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century.
Jack, or The Submission (French: Jacques ou la soumission) is an absurdist play by Eugène Ionesco, the first of two about Jack and his family (the second being The Future is in Eggs), all of whom are named after Jack (Father Jack, Mother Jack, etc.).
There was speculation that it was parody around the time of its first performance, but Ionesco states in an essay written to his critics that he had no intention of parody, but if he were parodying anything, it would be everything. The Bald Soprano appears to have been written as a continuous loop. The final scene contains stage instructions to ...
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The play contains many of Ionesco's common themes, and the characters are typical of his plays. For example, the couple's interaction is similar in many ways to the interaction between the Old Man and the Old Woman in The Chairs; the conflicting background story of the corpse parallels the old couple's conflicting stories about their children.
Theatrical debates of the 1950’s and 60’s began with the avant-garde theatre of Samuel Becket, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht.Performance techniques and theories of alienation or the distancing effect that began with Erwin Piscator and epic theatre became part of this debate.
The Killer (French: Tueur sans gages, sometimes translated The Killer without Reason or The Killer without Cause) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1958. It is the first of Ionesco's Berenger plays, the others being Rhinocéros (1959), Exit the King (1962), and A Stroll in the Air (1963).