The Bald Prima Donna

The Bald Prima Donna

The Bald Prima Donna

Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson

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The Bald Prima Donna

The Bald Prima Donna

Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson

Overview

This is a hilariously maniacal assault on the banality of English suburbia. A family is discussed, every member of which is called Bobby Watson; a young couple is alarmed to find that they have been married for years. For such people, words can have no meaning. The play ends in a crescendo of non-sequiturs.

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  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)

Authors

Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco
(born Nov. 26, 1909, Slatina, Rom.died March 28, 1994, Paris, France) was a Romanian-born French playwright. He studied in Bucharest and Paris, where he lived from 1945. His first one-act antiplay, The Bald Soprano (1950), inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and help ...
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Donald Watson