Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994) disappeared. His plays, The Bald Singer, La Lesson and Les Chaises shook the Parisian stage from the beginning of the 1950s.
Like Beckett - the first with a Romanian father and a French mother, the second a pure Irishman - chose the French language as his homeland. We will never be grateful enough to them for having written their masterpieces in the language of Molière. Here - unlike the author of Comment c'est -, these are not larvae who express nothing and go nowhere. They are characters who translate the absurdity of existence...