Last night I went to see The Bald Prima Donna at Barons Court Theatre (23 September, 7:30 pm) and what a strange, funny and slightly unsettling evening it turned out to be. Ionesco’s play doesn’t follow a normal story – instead, it takes place in a perfectly ordinary living room where polite conversation gradually unravels into complete nonsense. At first, I caught myself chuckling at the quirky dialogue, but as the words started looping, clashing and finally disintegrating, it became something far more uncomfortable – almost like holding up a mirror to the way we often speak without really saying […]
