Four Plays

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Four Plays by The Bald Soprano
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Translated by Donald M. Allen.
Beginning with his earliest play, The Bald Soprano, Eugene Ionesco has startled his audiences with his own "lonescoland" on stage that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. In the process, he has profoundly altered the face of modern drama. The four plays in this volume are now landmarks in the literature of our time, experiencing constant revivals in schools, colleges, and dramatic groups. Ionesco, one of the most ingenious and innovative dramatists of our age, has written more than twenty plays, as well as stories, memoirs, and theoretical essays. He has been elected a member of the French Academy.
The Bald Soprano "is explosively, liberatingly funny. It is a maniacal assault on the banality of English suburbia a loony parody with a climax which is an orgy of non-sequiturs."-Kenneth Tynan, The Observer
"lonesco utters his truth in... Tovább

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Four Plays by The Bald Soprano
Eug^nelonesco jiSc^^submission
The Chairs
$8.95
Translated by Donald M. Allen.
Beginning with his earliest play, The Bald Soprano, Eugene Ionesco has startled his audiences with his own "lonescoland" on stage that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. In the process, he has profoundly altered the face of modern drama. The four plays in this volume are now landmarks in the literature of our time, experiencing constant revivals in schools, colleges, and dramatic groups. Ionesco, one of the most ingenious and innovative dramatists of our age, has written more than twenty plays, as well as stories, memoirs, and theoretical essays. He has been elected a member of the French Academy.
The Bald Soprano "is explosively, liberatingly funny. It is a maniacal assault on the banality of English suburbia a loony parody with a climax which is an orgy of non-sequiturs."-Kenneth Tynan, The Observer
"lonesco utters his truth in specific stage terms which are startling and often brilliant. The lack of spiritual content in our civilization has been the major outcry of European drama since Ibsen, lonesco has carried this idea to the climactic point of savage caricature." —Harold Clurman
"There is a terrifying, almost suffocating logic about the work of lonesco. Life, he says, is a grotesque practical joke constantly pulling away chairs from under man's dignity and reason. Nothing is sane, reality is a hall of distorting mirrors reflecting the grimness of our own pretensions."—Milton Shulman, The Evening Standard
Cover Design: Ed Brodsky Vissza