The Bald Prima-Donna

Bald Prima-Donna, The (La Cantatrice chauve)

    Alternative Title: The Bald Soprano

    Author: Eugène Ionesco

    First Performance: 1950, Paris

    Published: 1954

    First English Translation: 1958

    Genre: Drama in 1 act; French prose

    Setting: Middle-class English home, late 1940s

    Cast: 3m, 3f

Mr and Mrs Smith are sitting after an evening meal, which she describes to him in stilted phrases. He finds fault with the newspaper for not giving the ages of the newly born. They then discuss Bobby Watson, who died two years previously but whose death was announced only recently, and all of whose family members are called Bobby Watson. The Smiths are joined by Mr and Mrs Martin, who feel they have met each other somewhere and then realize that they live together. The Maid however...

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