The chairs is a theater piece by the Romanian playwright and writer of Romanian origin Eugène Ionesco, the greatest exponent of the theater of the absurd. It was written in 1952, when the author was 43 years old. The work, which manages to maintain a perfect assembly between the comic elements and those of tragic aspect, staged two elders who embody the effort of man to communicate with the other, when in fact does nothing but talk to himself. Synopsis
Ionesco places on the stage a couple of old people who are isolated in a tower. To justify the failures of their existence, they give life to imaginary people of all kinds, among whom is the Emperor. When the two characters meet a crowd of empty chairs that they perceive thanks to their imagination, they are blocked and the speaker appears. For them; his arrival means liberation.
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