Review: Ionesco Suite/Theatre de la Ville at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
RECOMMENDED It was a happy coincidence that I happened to catch Theatre de la Ville's "Ionesco Suite" within a day of seeing Strawdog Theatre's production of "Fail/Safe." Both shows traffic in mid-century, post-nuclear absurdism, one through skewering the bourgeois with comedic fragmentation and formalist experimentation and one through showing a bunch of B-movie archetypes almost […]