The Bald Soprano | Summary
The Bald Soprano, a one-act "anti-play,'' opens in a "middle-class English" interior, furnished with typically English furniture and a typically English couple, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, whose first names remain unknown. It is an English evening, and the pair is engaged in English activities. He reads a newspaper while she darns socks. The silence is broken by an English clock that strikes seventeen times, prompting Mrs. Smith to remark that "it's nine o'clock."
Mrs. Smith recounts what the pair had for dinner, mentally wandering from the menu to the pair's children while...
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