This Friday, Shippensburg University students will be perform Eugène Ionesco’s play, “The Bald Soprano.” Associate Professor of French, Blandine Mitaut, has arranged the opportunity with the Office of Social Equity, the Commission on Human Understanding and the Department of Modern Languages to allow SU students to witness an important “anti-play,” originally written in the 1950s.
The brochure explains that “The Bald Soprano” is a “parody of bourgeois preoccupations with conformity and the pettiness of a life lived artificially,” that “Ionesco reveals the absurdity of a world without apparent meaning.”
The play will have three performances — this Friday at 8:00 p.m., this Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and later that Saturday at 8:00 p.m. It will be performed by James Wright and SU students. Admission is free and will be held in Old Main Chapel.
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