ABSTRACT
Ionesco's "anti-play", The Bald Soprano, is one of the most celebrated and interesting works in what we call the theater of the absurd. Ionesco describes the curious coincidences that led to the writing of The Bald Soprano. The play begins by attacking our sense of rationality. Ionesco has parodied the process of logical deduction. Having disposed of deduction, Ionesco next turns his attention to empiricism. The Martins are chatting awkwardly with the Smiths in their living room. Ionesco has used, with considerable brilliance and imagination, a large number of comic techniques to create his "absurd theater". Ionesco exaggerates the banality of the traveler's everyday concerns, and, at the same time, decontextualizes the worldview presented in language books. Ultimately, the characters in the play are part of a world so impersonal that the characters in it are interchangeable, which is the way that Ionesco ends the play.
