The “Grace Slick and the Janis Joplin of the theatre world”, iOTA and Paul Capsis, reunite to take on Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist classic, The Chairs.
“So am I,” says iOTA. “We’re on opposite sides of the street, but in the same neighbourhood.”The Chairs is a classic of absurdist theatre.was a hoot,” says iOTA. “I enjoyed her own special brand of madness. I think the same thing with Paul. We’re all a little bit crazy.”
Hungarian-born British academic and BBC broadcaster Martin Esslin coined the term “the theatre of the absurd” to mark the plays of Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter, all of whom grappled with the post-war crisis in meaning.is a “powerfully poetic play” whose power “does not lie in the banal words that are uttered but in the fact that they are spoken to an ever-growing number of empty chairs”.
“[They asked] What are we here for? If human beings can do that to each other, can destroy each other, then who are we in terms of compassion? What’s the point, became the next question. There was a sense that everything is pointless, there is no hope, the individual is just lost in the mass.
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