The Bald Soprano

Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Saturday Night Live are all examples of how much our culture loves absurdity. But when did this love affair begin?
The Cutting Ball Theater opens its 10th season with the play that started it all, Eugene Ionesco's absurd and comic masterpiece The Bald Soprano. The Smiths are a traditional couple from London who have invited another couple, the Martins, over for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Smith mourn the loss of Bobby Watson, but cant quite decide which Bobby Watson they are mourning. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are pleased to have just met even though they have been married for many years and have two children together.
This hysterically funny play, the perfect follow up to last seasons hit production of Ionecso's Victims of Duty, which garnered a Bay Area Critics Circle award for Best Production, premiered in Paris in 1950 and was Ionesco's first work for the theater. Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose directs The Bald Soprano, about which The New York Times said, The play has not aged. One might even suggest that we have caught up with [it].