The Chairs is a one-act play by Eugène Ionesco, described as an absurdist "tragic farce". It was first performed in Paris in 1952.
For Ionesco's Sandaliha (The Chairs), Bahman Mohasses created a number of decorative and expressive chairs that when put together suggested an abstract forest.
Geraldine McEwan was an English actress, who had a long career in film, theatre and television. Michael Coveney described her, in a tribute article, as "a great comic stylist, with a syrupy, seductive
The Chairs
…Theatre. In 1997 a revival at the Royal Court Theatre in London by Théâtre de Complicité was directed by Simon McBurney, starring Richard Briers and Geraldine McEwan. It transferred to the John Golden Theatre on Broadway in 1998. In 2002, Cesear's Forum, Cleveland's small minimalist theatre at Kennedy's Down Under…