Hi again my fellow followers! :)Today, I´ve found an interesting information about "my play" on the blog which name I cannot publish because Google security claims it is infected. However some guy wrote there an article about his fascination with Ionesco. It is a long article where he compares two Ionesco´s plays (The Leader, and The Future is in Eggs). While I was reading it, I´ve found that the play Future is in Eggs has a SEQUEL!!!
Firstly, the play I´ve chosen is situated in some unspecified place (characters are just standing on the theatre stage). And with the placing comes the interesting point that the guy has found out--"my play" is a directly connected with the book Jacques, or the Submission. Actually, it is so closely related that when Ionesco finished his play The Future is in Eggs in 1951 he literally FROZE his characters for 3 years until he published the sequel in 1954 and those characters could finally finish their pointless dialogues and absurd acts in Jacques, or the Submission.
I have to say that it is difficult to write something about Ionesco after reading Adela´s first article, that was btw. excellent, and not repeating her words. So, I´ve decided to leave the part where I would describe all those amazing things that he promoted and present him in my own eyes.
I think that Eugene Ionesco was a little fool. Come on, it isn´t normal to take dictionary phrases and made a play from it (The Bald Soprano)! But if you´re the type of the reader who´s able to think about what he reads, you find out that his plays have a deep and intelligent meaning that can be applied to our society. We know it from our own life... You don´t know what to talk about? So you say "It´s cold today, isn´t it?", and your dear friend replies "It isn´t very warm, that´s right." Every body does that, including me, but isn´t that conversation a little meaningless? Ionesco was an expert on showing the absurdity of our society. But I think that in his time, and even nowadays he is slightly undervalued. (Have you seen at least one of his plays in Ostrava´s theatres in last couple of years?). In my opinion, Eugene Ionesco is the only human between billions of rhinoceros.
Ha! Great article, Millie! (btw not only because you praised mine :)) I totally agree that he was one of the few humans among billions rhinoceroses.. It's interesting how Ionesco sets his plays into nameless towns and how he doesn't name the characters (e.g. there are characters like: announcer, young lover, the admirer, gorcer's wife..) right? =)
ReplyDeleteExactly :), and in my play I really appreciate it! There are two main characters and their families. He named the family Mother-Jack, Father-Jack ... so that you can´t be confused who is who :D. For ex. I usually do get lost in Shakespeare´s plays, but it would never happen in Future Eggs (maybe because it´s just 20 pg. long :P).
ReplyDeleteI'm a little bit confused... How did Ionesco literally freeze his 3 characters? Was he a scientist??
ReplyDeleteOtherwise I enjoyed your view on Ionesco :)
You know I was imagining it like a scene from a real life where the people are talking and then they just freeze for several year and after they start function again from the exact place where they ended. Maybe it was meant literally freeze in metaphorical way :DD ... in Czech I would say it the same way (doslova zmrzli) .. understand a bit??? :D
DeleteYou have a good challenge here, with such a short play you must delve deep into all the philosophical nonsense and find something to..blah..blah...blah!
ReplyDeleteIt used to be fun. However, after 5 tasks I feel like repeating all the time and I know that there is another 5 to go :D
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