Eugene Ionesco is another of the Theatre of the Absurd's iconic playwrights. His play, The Bald Soprano exemplifies various key characteristics of the genre.
The banality of the dialogue and the concerns of the characters points to a general theme of the meaningless existence of man, while the generalized and moronic nature of the characters and situations provide the absurd element - which also points to this theme of meaningless existence.
The characters are largely one-dimensional, standing in for everyone else in humanity and asserting that any one of us is as meaningless as the next fellow. It is important to note, also, that the characters exist largely in a vague setting.
In general, the play disregards traditional dramatic story telling, alienating itself from the Realism of its predecessors. This creation of a dreamlike or incomplete reality brings up central philosophical questions of existence and meaning - what is our environment? Is what we see really what exists? Are we alive/real, or are we part of some dream world? Does it matter?
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