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The Chairs

The Chairs

Inspired craziness in a Blue Raincoat triumph ... thumpingly good.”
Sunday Independent
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Details

  • Written byEugene Ionesco
  • Start date7 Jun 2012
  • End date9 Jun 2012
  • TicketsThurs £15/ £11/ £6. Fri & Sat £17/ £13. 7.30pm
  • GenreTheatre

In a lighthouse on the edge of civilisation, an old man and an old woman are waiting.

They await the arrival of the town's people to their home. Everyone, from the Mayor to the Blacksmith, the Colonel to the Courtesan will be there. It is possible the Emperor himself may attend. Because tonight, after a long life of bewilderment and underachievement, the old man has finally decided to tell all. 

Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs is one of the most merciless and unrelenting interrogations of life and living ever written for the stage; a mind-spinning tragic farce.

Blue Raincoat are one of Ireland's most celebrated theatre companies, and the only full-time ensemble in the country. They make a welcome return to the Traverse after their inspired adaptations of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman and At Swim Two Birds. 

Space: Traverse One

www.blueraincoat.com

Blue Raincoat Theatre Company

  • Niall Henry

    Director
  • John Carty

    Cast
  • Sandra O’Malley

    Cast
  • Ciarán McCauley

    Cast
  • Inspired craziness in a Blue Raincoat triumph ... thumpingly good.”
    Sunday Independent
  • Excellent performances … an outstanding example of absurdist theatre”.
    The Irish Times
 
 

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