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A review by bookswithabi
Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco
1.0
This review is purely of the play The Chairs. I do at some point want to read the other plays within this collection, but I had to read The Chairs because I am studying it in drama at college.
It is probably the weirdest play I have ever read. I get that it's meant to be abstract, but still. I don't know, my rating will probably go up once I've studied it in class and understood it a bit more, but I just found it really weird, and I had to force myself to read it. It is definitely not something that I would pick up for myself, and I wouldn't really recommend it. I think it would be much better actually seeing this live, because the staging is quite complex, and I struggled imagining it, but I think the staging plays a key role in understanding the play.
It is probably the weirdest play I have ever read. I get that it's meant to be abstract, but still. I don't know, my rating will probably go up once I've studied it in class and understood it a bit more, but I just found it really weird, and I had to force myself to read it. It is definitely not something that I would pick up for myself, and I wouldn't really recommend it. I think it would be much better actually seeing this live, because the staging is quite complex, and I struggled imagining it, but I think the staging plays a key role in understanding the play.