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The Bald Soprano and Other Plays
The Bald Soprano and Other Plays | Eugene Ionesco
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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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Bertha_Mason

"Here's a thing I don't understand. In the newspaper they always give the age of deceased persons but never the age of the newly born. That doesn't make sense."
-"The Bald Soprano"
Nobody tell him.

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AMVP
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I have a vague memory of reading The Bald Soprano for a unit on the Theater of the Absurd in college, though I can't say for sure. This copy I picked up today had some notations in it, though a quick scan doesn't show it to be too rigorous.

#bookhaul

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TheKidUpstairs
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Ionesco was a master of #absurdity. His plays were some of my favourites to study in university.

#QuotsyNov17 @TK-421

tournevis Love love Ionesco. Saw so many of his plays. Including Cantatrice chauve in the little hole in the wall in Paris that's been staging it for the better part of 50 years. Love him. 7y
TheKidUpstairs @tournevis that sounds amazing! I've only ever seen his plays performed by students... 7y
tournevis @TheKidUpstairs I've seen many student productions too. I'm a sucker for Ionesco 7y
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Read several of these plays and found a lot of fun, if you're into absurdism and find enjoyment in the moment when the writer decides to pull something out longer than you ever imagined, I recommend these

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Another play to read (I will actually progress in non school reading this week too, it will happen)

Adventures_of_a_French_Reader I love The Lesson by Ionesco! I would like to see one of his plays on stage... 8y
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