Complete Bibliography

 “A Feat of Absurd Proportions: The 24-Hour Bald Soprano - The Phoenix,” March 7, 2019. https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2019/03/07/a-feat-of-absurd-proportions-the-24-hour-bald-soprano/.

 

NPR.org. “A Gift in Any Language.” Accessed May 11, 2020. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5021582.

 

“Assimil.” In Wikipedia, January 5, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assimil&oldid=934160159.

 

Fluent in 3 months - Language Hacking and Travel Tips. “Assimil Review: An Honest Look at the Assimil Language Learning System,” May 15, 2017. https://www.fluentin3months.com/assimil-review/.

 

“Bald Diva! | TheaterMania.” Accessed May 11, 2020. https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/reviews/bald-diva_4380.html.

 

Uwishunu - Philadelphia Blog About Things to Do, Events, Restaurants, Food, Nightlife and More. “Brat Productions Presents A Marathon 24-Hour Production Of The Bald Soprano At Plays And Players Theater, February 24-25,” February 21, 2012. http://www.uwishunu.com/2012/02/brat-productions-presents-a-marathon-24-hour-production-of-the-bald-soprano-at-plays-and-players-theater-february-24-25/.

 

Philadelphia Magazine. “BRAT Productions to Perform The Bald Soprano for 24 Hours Nonstop | The Philly Post,” February 21, 2012. https://www.phillymag.com/news/2012/02/21/actor-fall-stage/.

 

Calinescu, Matei. “Ionesco and Rhinoceros: Personal and Political Backgrounds.” East European Politics & Societies 9, no. 3 (1995): 393–432. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325495009003002.

 

Cardullo, R. “Experimental Theatre in the Twentieth Century: Avant-Gardism, the Absurd, and the Postmodern.” NEOHELICON 42, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 341–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-013-0215-8.

 

“Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.” In Wikipedia, April 10, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages&oldid=950196898.

 

Cox, Lara. “The Curious Case of La Cantatrice Chauve (1950): Re-Thinking the Death of the Avant-Garde.” French Cultural Studies 24, no. 1 (February 1, 2013): 104–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155812464157.

 

Decherf, Dominique. “French Views of Religious Freedom.” Brookings (blog), November 30, 2001. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/french-views-of-religious-freedom/.

 

Dobrez, L.A. C. "Ionesco: claustrophobia and euphoria." In The Existential and its Exits: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on the Works of Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter, 131–146. Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 1986. Accessed May 11, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472554321.ch-006.

 

Doubrovsky, J. S. “Ionesco and the Comic of Absurdity.” In Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, 1976.

 

Elsky, Julia. “Rethinking Ionesco’s Absurd: The Bald Soprano in the Interlingual Context of Vichy and Postwar France.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 133, no. 2 (2018): 347.

 

Encyclopedia of World Biography. Vol. 8. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 1998.

 

“Eugène Ionesco.” In Wikipedia, May 9, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco&oldid=955798809.

 

Fiero, John W. “A Discussion of The Bald Soprano.” In Drama for Students (Series Level), n.d.

 

Henshey, Chelsea. “Comedy Writing Secrets: Triple the Funny.” Writer’s Digest. Accessed May 11, 2020. https://www.writersdigest.com/there-are-no-rules/comedy-writing-secrets-triples.

 

Hoffmann, Stanley. “The Effects of World War II on French Society and Politics.” French Historical Studies 2, no. 1 (1961): 28–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/286182.

 

Copyblogger. “How to Use the ‘Rule of Three’ to Create Engaging Content,” April 2, 2019. https://copyblogger.com/rule-of-three/.

 

“IRC’s Bald Soprano Has Great Hair | Colin Murray | ThINKingDANCE.” Accessed May 11, 2020. http://thinkingdance.net/articles/2020/02/13/IRCs-Bald-Soprano-Has-Great-Hair.

 

Kelly, Michael. “War and Culture: The Lessons of Post-War France.” Synergies Royaume-Uni et Irlande 1 (2008): 91–100.

 

Kelsall, Cameron. “Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium Presents Eugène Ionesco’s ‘The Bald Soprano.’” Accessed May 11, 2020. https://www.broadstreetreview.com/theater/idiopathic-ridiculopathy-consortium-presents-eugene-ionescos-the-bald-sopra.

 

“La Méthode ASSIMIL Pour Apprendre Une Langue - Assimil.Com.” Accessed May 11, 2020. https://www.assimil.com/articles/5-la-methode-assimil.

 

Lewis, Allan. “The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, The Chairs.” In Literature Resource Center, n.d.

Mandel, Alan. “The Bald Soprano Sings: The Concept of the Absurd in the Works of Ionesco and Selected Musical Compositions.” The European Legacy: Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas 2, no. 1 (March 1, 1997): 170–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848779708579710.

 

Milutinović, Zoran. “The Death of Representation and the Representation of Death: Ionesco, Beckett, and Stoppard.” Comparative Drama 40, no. 3 (2006): 337–64. https://doi.org/10.1353/cdr.2006.0037.

 

Moore, Honor. “Ionesco in the Berkshires.” Salmagundi, no. 135–136 (2002).

 

WHYY. “Philly Fringe Reviews: ‘The Bald Soprano,’ ‘Kink Haüs,’ ‘Leaps of Faith and Other Mistakes’ and ‘The Currency of Belief.’” Accessed May 11, 2020. https://whyy.org/articles/philly-fringe-reviews-the-bald-soprano-kink-haues-leaps-of-faith-and-other-mistakes-and-the-currency-of-belief/.

 

“Philly Theatre Week - Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano | Theatre Philadelphia.” Accessed May 11, 2020. https://www.theatrephiladelphia.org/whats-on-stage/philly-theatre-week-eugene-ionescos-the-bald-soprano.

 

Los Angeles Times. “Present at Birth of Theater of the Absurd : Stage: Director Nicolas Bataille Brings to Hollywood the Play That Brought Him and Its Author a Piece of History--Ionesco’s ‘The Bald Soprano.,’” March 20, 1993. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-20-ca-13077-story.html.

 

Publishing, Britannica Educational, and Kathleen Kuiper. Authors of the Early to Mid-20th Century. Britannica Educational Publishing, 2013.

 

Ruhl, Sarah. “Re-Runs and Repetition.” Contemporary Theatre Review 16, no. 3 (August 1, 2006): 283–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486800600818814.

 

Saiu, Octavian. “A Centenary Foretold: The Reception of Eugène Ionesco in His ‘Fatherland.’” New Theatre Quarterly 29, no. 1 (February 1, 2013): 76. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X13000079.

 

Sanchez, Dan. “How Nationalism and Socialism Arose from the French Revolution | Dan Sanchez,” April 12, 2017. https://fee.org/articles/how-nationalism-and-socialism-arose-from-the-french-revolution/.

 

“Search Results - Faith Based Initiative of the Threatre of the Absurd.” Accessed May 11, 2020. https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Summon/Search?type=AllFields&lookfor=faith+based+initiative+of+the+threatre+of+the+absurd&limit=20.

 

Service, DENNY DYROFF For the Journal Register News. “‘The Bald Soprano’ Is 24 Hours of Theatre.” Daily Local News. Accessed May 11, 2020. https://www.dailylocal.com/arts_and_entertainment/the-bald-soprano-is-24-hours-of-theatre/article_23257902-30e0-5ff1-9032-1c57c68285ef.html.

 

Simeon, S. “Film-Theatre as an Intermedial Occurrence of Theatre: Recycling Ionesco’s Bald Soprano.” ROMANCE STUDIES 35, no. 4 (2017): 248–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2017.1413852.

 

Teodorescu-Regier, Jeanine. “Eugene Ionesco.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 321: Twentieth-Century French Dramatists, 2006.

 

SwatStories. “The Bald Soprano,” November 27, 2019. https://swatstories.com/2019/11/27/the-bald-soprano/.

 

“The Cast of Brat’s The Bald Soprano on the Absurdity of Performing for 24 Hours Straight | Annenberg Center.” Accessed May 11, 2020. https://annenbergcenter.org/about/inthenews.php?id=69.

 

“Theatre of the Absurd.” In Wikipedia, February 9, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatre_of_the_Absurd&oldid=939924452.

 

Zarhy-Levo, Yael. “Dramatists under a Label: Martin Esslin’s The Theatre of the Absurd and Aleks Sierz’ In-Yer-Face Theatre.” Studies in Theatre and Performance 31, no. 3 (January 1, 2011): 315–26. https://doi.org/10.1386/stp.31.3.315_1.