 For Ionesco, the clichés and truisms of the conversation primer disintegrated into wild caricature and parody with language itself disintegrating into disjointed fragments of words.Ionesco set about translating this experience into a play, "La Cantatrice Chauve", which was performed for the first time in 1950 under the direction of Nicolas Bataille.It was far from a success and went unnoticed until a few established writers and critics, among them Jean Anouilh and Raymond Queneau, championed the play.