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The Bald Soprano

The Bald Soprano

by Eugène Ionesco

Directed by Alexandru Dabija

Premiere

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Synopsis

Mr and Mrs. Smith debate upon trivial things, failing in fact to establish communication. The Martins arrive and realize, during a debate which is just as senseless, that they are married to each other. Their dialogue is gradually replaced by meaningless utterances, by words, and ultimately by sounds. This dramatic debut of Ionesco, focusing on the absurdity of our daily existence and routine, is the most staged play in contemporary universal theatre.

Photo gallery

Isolde Cobeţ, Olga Török, Rareş Hontzu
Isolde Cobeţ, Rareş Hontzu, Olga Török
Isolde Cobeţ, Rareş Hontzu
Ioana Iacob, Isolde Cobeţ, Rareş Hontzu, Radu Miodrag Vulpe

Distribution

Radu Vulpe

Mr. Smith

Ioana Iacob

Mrs. Smith

Rareş Hontzu

Mr. Martin

Isolde Cobeţ

Mrs. Martin

Olga Török

Mary, the maid

Boris Gaza

Fire Chief

Technical direction

Liviu Oltean

Assistant scenographer

Zsolt Fehérvári

Director

Alexandru Dabija

Set and costumes

George Petre

Stage speech coordination

Ida Jarcsek-Gaza

Reviews

"The show uses a lot and well contradiction, offbeat and a certain anachronism. […] The director succeeds in capturing the mechanical condition of beings void of sense, of authentic embodiment of the characters. Through consistent detail inconsistency, Alexandru Dabija intends, I think, to send a powerful subliminal message, casting doubt over those opinions that reduce The Bald Soprano, Ionesco's debut play, to a text at the risk of becoming only a theoretical document of the antitheater."


Mircea Morariu, in: Theatre Today, Bucharest

"In Alexandru Dabija's vision, the Martins are different from the Smiths through a relative relaxation and decongestion of the state of alienation. Their identity recovering dialogue is cancelled by the maid's intervention, which amplifies the explaining effect to the cancelling identity of the Martins' child […]  It's all about changing the point of view which, in fact, is one of the most terrifying causes of social alienation. The maid is the most dramatic character, with comically derived tragic, the most transparent character, between the Smiths' frigidity and the Martins' effervescence. The fire chief finds himself to be the male counterpart …

Mihaela Dumitraşcu, in: Renaştera bănăţeană, Timişoara

"In Alexandru Dabija's vision, the Martins are different from the Smiths through a relative relaxation and decongestion of the state of alienation. Their identity recovering dialogue is cancelled by the maid's intervention, which amplifies the explaining effect to the cancelling identity of the Martins' child […]  It's all about changing the point of view which, in fact, is one of the most terrifying causes of social alienation. The maid is the most dramatic character, with comically derived tragic, the most transparent character, between the Smiths' frigidity and the Martins' effervescence. The fire chief finds himself to be the male counterpart of the maid."


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