Reading Plays

Reading Plays


The Bald Soprano – Episode 9 – Reading Plays

October 28, 2014

Quantum Physics, synchronicity, English mustachios, it has to be Eugene Ionesco’s ‘The Bald Soprano’ (La Cantatrice Chauve). This is a play for which context is essential: Beckett’s growing reputation in France at the beginning of the 1950’s. The efforts of dramatists who became known as the ‘theatre of the absurd’ to acknowledge the horrors of … Continue reading The Bald Soprano – Episode 9 – Reading Plays →