Eugene Ionesco's THE CHAIRS Playbill for the 1998 Broadway Production - John Golden Theatre (Volume 98)

This seventy-four page Playbill documents the exciting 1998 Broadway production (presented by London's Theatre De Complicite & Royal Court Theatre), directed by Simon McBurney and starring Geraldine McEwan & Richard Briers, which re-vitalized the genre of Absurdism. Program contents: title page with credits; black/white production photo of Mr. Briers & Ms. McEwan in action; cast; "who's who" - with headshots of the actors; complete staff. Feature articles: an interview with Anna Manahan starring in THE BEAUTY QUEEN of LEEANE; another interview with the principals in the B'way musical version of Cole Porter's HIGH SOCIETY; a report on the new, exciting production of THE CHAIRS by Ionesco; a piece on Peter Whelan's THE HERBAL BED, which mixes fact with fiction to explore the nature of conscience, commitment, and truth in the telling of a scandalous situation involving Susanna Hall - Shakespeare's eldest daughter and wife of John Hall, a well known physician in Stratford- upon-Avon. Plus: a Steinbeck Salute by the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, N.Y., along with other favorite monthly columns.