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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802130792 (0802130798)
ASIN: 802130798
Publish date: January 12th 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Academic,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
20th Century,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
France,
French Literature
More Ionesco plays. Sometimes I bemoan "the modern play" and the fact that nothing seems as fresh as Ionesco did to me, back then. But what do I know? I don't even go to plays anymore, because I can't stop thinking about as if it were work.