The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Frédérique Michel

City Garage is proud to present The Chairs, a tragicomedy. Welcome to the magical world of Semiramis and General Factotum. They are preparing for an evening event at which, after a lifetime of preparation, the General will at last deliver his “message” to a select audience.

As they fetch and carry, fuss and fight, the couple gets as lost in their memories of the past as they are consumed by their dreams of a future that seems increasingly unlikely to arrive. This absorbing fable hauntingly explores the ideas of love, loss, frustrated ambition, and the fear of death that so permeates the work of one of the great masters and innovators of 20th century drama. As so often in Ionesco, we laugh at the same time as we wince with pain, recognizing ourselves.

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