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 ...

Productions will present Eugène Ionesco's masterpiece The Chairs, opening on March 27, 2025, and running through April 14, 2025, at Balance Arts Center. This darkly comic and poignant play from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.