There isn't an ounce of truth in Scena Theatre's mannered production of "The Chairs," the absurdist landmark that playwright Eugene Ionesco himself labeled a tragic farce. It's all limp farce at ...

Described by the playwright himself as a tragic farce, Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs is a play that leaves me wanting more -- more dark laughter, more painful recognition, more of those exquisite ...

THERE are many stories about the strange kinship between the haphazard logic of Eugene ... from Ionesco’s hands, they flew all over the room, even fluttering under the chairs and the piano ...

Seventy years after Eugene Ionesco wrote The Chairs ... contemporary trauma in its comic-tragic absurdity. The late Romanian-French playwright’s one-act play was first produced in 1952 as ...

Five years ago, Palm Beach Dramaworks produced Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist classic, “The Chairs,” and some of its audience is still scratching its heads over what that play was about.

Kathryn Hunter’s performance is the main draw in this rare and laborious revival of Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist 1952 play. You can ... a revolving stage full of chairs, embrace tearfully.

Written in the early '50s, Ionesco's tragic farce The Chairs remains as playful and puzzling as ever - a play of intimacy and detachment, tiny triumphs, gloom and doom. The geriatric couple ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -A Greek actor has forced the cancellation of a Eugene Ionesco play in Athens after refusing to perform only for vaccinated audiences, drawing criticism and praise in equal ...