The Bald Soprano

by

Eugène Ionesco

The Clock

The Smiths’ clock represents reality’s chaotic unpredictability and the ridiculous attempts to logically assess and measure it. Clocks, typically, are a means of ordering reality, regimenting time into stable, linear units. Yet the Smiths’ clock…

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Fire

Fire represents the world’s tendency towards self-destruction. The Fire Chief laments that there have been so few fires lately: his job depends on them, so he takes it as a sign of a weak economy…

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