Potent Pause Presents THE CHAIRS Opening 3/12

Potent Pause Productions as part of the Auckland Festival 2009 present The Chairs/Les Chaises by Eugene Ionesco

The Chairs will be performed in French and in English as follows:
Thurs 12 - Sat 14 March 2009 (English) 8pm
Sun 15 March 2009 (English) 6pm
Tues 17 - Sat 21 March 2009 (French) 8pm
Sun 22 March 2009 (French) 6pm
Tues 24 - Sat 28 March 2009 (English) 8pm
No performances Monday

Telephone bookings: (09) 308 2383

Directed and designed by George Tudor
Cast: Michael Lawrence, Cristina Ionda and Denise Snoad
Two characters, an old man and old woman, arrange chairs for a series of invisible guests who are invited to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery of the meaning of life. The message is left with the orator, but he is deaf-mute and cannot relay it.

A defining piece of the Theatre of the Absurd movement and an audience favourite, Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs also boasts one of the greatest climaxes in modern theatre.

Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes - no interval