The PUPIL, like a good girl, settles down to MAID : Will you come down, Sir, please? Your pupil has arrived. Sit down for a moment and I'll go and tell him. Is the Professor at home? MAID : Have you come for your lesson? 181 Three chairs round the table, two more on either side of the window, a light wallpaper, a few shelves holding books. The table, which also serves as a desk, stands in the centre of the room. In the distance can be glimpsed low red-roofed houses : the small town. To the rear and slightly to the left there is a window hung with plain curtains, and outside, on the sill, pots of common or garden flowers. On the left of the stage a door leads to the main staircase of the apartment block at the back of the stage, on the right, another door opens on to a corridor in the flat. THE LESSON First produced in Paris by Marcel Cuvelier at the Theatre du Poche, 20 February 1951.įirst produced in London by Peter Hall at the Arts Theatre Club, 9 March 1955.Ĭharacters of the Play THE PROFESSOR, somewhere between fifty and sixty years of age THE GIRL PUPIL, eighteen years old THE MAID, between forty-five and fifty SCENE : The old Professor's study, which is also his dining-room. THE LESSON A Comic Drama By Eugene Ionesco
His ideas on the theatre are available in Notes et contre-notes and Journal en miettes. His other plays include The Bald Prima-Donna (1958), Amédéé or How to Get Rid of It (1954), Victims of Duty (1953) and Jacques or Obedience (1958). PENGUIN BOOKS RHINOCEROS - THE CHAIRS THE LESSON Eugene Ionesco is a playwright of Rumanian origin, one of the acknowledged leaders of contemporary avant-garde drama in France.
Eugène Ionesco THE LESSON Translated by Donald Watson
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