The Bald Soprano
by Eugene Ionesco
Directed by Sean Graney
May 13-June 24

Back in 1997, an unknown company called The Hypocrites put up a production of The Bald Soprano at the Café Voltaire. Now, 10 years later, The Hypocrites return to their first love, Eugene Ionesco. In this play, the Smiths and the Martins try desperately to communicate with one another with a language that has lost all meaning. Fascinated by the banality of sentences used as examples while trying to learn English, Ionesco wrote The Bald Soprano as a tribute to the death of language. If simple words like “dog” or “cup” can have different meanings to different people, how can the language communicate complex ideas like “love” or “desire?”