Lesson

Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994) is a French playwright of Romanian origin, one of the founders and the largest representatives of the theatre of absurd. In his first play, "The Bald Singer", he portrays the crazy world, the collapse of reality. He was followed by "Class", "Chairs", "Rhinoceros", "The King Dies", "Man with Suitcase". and other plays.

Situations, characters, dialogues in his plays have more dreamlike images and associations than ordinary ones. Using funny contradictions, proverbs and puns, the language is freed from already familiar meanings and associations.

Ionesco declares. "Realism remains out of reality. It narrows, discolors and distorts a person, making him smaller and alienated.

The truth is in our dreams and imagination... The real thing is just a myth..."

The playwright strives to create an "abstract theatre, pure drama". Find a new, free theatre. The theatre, freed from preconceived ideas, is able to be honest, to become an instrument of research that reveals the hidden meanings of phenomena.

In Ionesco's play "The Lesson", the student is helpless in front of the teacher, she is helpless in front of someone else's worldview and linguistic thinking, which in the comic drama "The Lesson" gradually turns from a metaphor of violence into an instrument. power, and then...

 

Worke with actors : Arman Navasardyan