Another character arrives to ask politely if there are any fires in the household and, finding none, stays to exchange parables.
At one point in this play, a man and woman compare their lives for several minutes before realizing that their lives are identical as they are, in fact, married to one another. Another character arrives to ask politely if there are any fires in the household and, finding none, stays to exchange parables. After the arrival of the Fire Chief and the Martins, Mr. Smith gives his opinion that a conscientious doctor must die with his patient if unable to cure him, to which his wife responds by wondering why newspapers give the age of the deceased but never that of the newly born. For ten points, name this Absurdist play, the first by Eugene Ionesco.
At one point in this play, a man and woman compare their lives for several minutes before realizing that their lives are identical as they are, in fact, married to one another.
The {Bald Soprano} (or {La cantatrice chauve})