The Bald Soprano & The Lesson
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 19, 2004
Closed Oct 17, 2004
Opened Sep 19, 2004
Closed Oct 17, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Tony-nominated playwright Tina Howe breathes new life into these classics of absurdism with her wildly funny, vibrant new translations of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano & The Lesson. Carl Forsman directs.
The Bald Soprano celebrates the verbal mayhem that erupts when proper English people lose their ability to communicate. In The Lesson, a professor tries to teach his student the basics of arithmetic and philology, but things go terribly wrong as his pronouncements escalate into inspired gibberish.
Added Performance: Sunday, 9/19 @7pm (Opening night)
No Performance: Sunday, 9/19 @3pm
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A clock strikes 17 times, heralding the beginning of an evening of absurdist theater. In the Atlantic Theater Company's season opener, two one-act plays by Eugene Ionesco are paired together and performed in new translations by acclaimed playwright Tina Howe. Directed by Carl Forsman, this production of The Bald Soprano & The Lesson adroitly grounds Ionesco's often nonsensical turns of phrases and all too frequent contradictions of language in a viable reality.
As "The Bald Soprano" opens, Mrs. Smith (Jan Maxwell) is darning a sock while chattering away to her husband. Mr. Smith (Michael Countryman) sits reading a newspaper, occasionally making a clicking noise with his tongue. Immediatel[...]