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The Bald Soprano and The Lesson
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  • Flex: 14 / SC 13 / Stu 13 / UI & Yth 8
    Single: 15 / SC 14 / Stu 14 / UI & Yth 9
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The Bald Soprano and The Lesson
BY EUGÈNE IONESCO, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY TINA HOWE
TOM MITCHELL, DIRECTOR

Thursday-Saturday, October 7-9, 2010, at 7:30pm; Wednesday-Saturday, October 13-16, 2010, at 7:30pm; Sunday, October 17, 2010, at 3pm | Studio Theatre

Department of Theatre Series | In two plays that escape the boundaries of reality, playwright Eugène Ionesco indulges in absurdity. In The Bald Soprano, a proper English dinner party dissolves into comic mayhem as language fragments and identities fracture. In the hands of the American playwright Tina Howe, who translates this new adaptation, the evening is made fresh and funny. As absurdly violent as The Bald Soprano is funny, The Lesson reveals the differential in power between student and teacher. An ordinary tutorial becomes a Twilight Zone journey into maintaining control. These two classics of the modern stage offer a roller coaster of theatricality and a funhouse of meaning.