For 10 points, name this first play by Eugene Ionesco.
In this play, an audience cries out, "Fantastic!" after hearing the story of "something really incredible" that turns out to be a man bending down to tie his shoelace. One character in this play tells his audience an "experimental fable" in which a dog explains that he didn't swallow his trunk because he thought it was an elephant. The opening stage directions to this play note that it is set in a "middle-class English interior" where "an English clock strikes 17 English strokes." Mary says she is Sherlock Holmes in this play after proving that a couple is not actually married. In this play, a visit by the Martins to the Smiths is interrupted by the entrance of the Fire Chief. For 10 points, name this first play by Eugene Ionesco.
In this play, an audience cries out, "Fantastic!" after hearing the story of "something really incredible" that turns out to be a man bending down to tie his shoelace.
The Bald Soprano [or La Cantatrice Chauve]