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[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. © The Author 2018 133.2 ] Rethinking Ionesco’s Absurd: The Bald Soprano in the Interlingual Context of Vichy and Postwar France julia elsky UGÈNE IONESCO’S LA CANTATRICE CHAUVE (THE BALD SOPRANO) IS Eone of the most performed plays in the world. It debuted in May 1950 at the Parisian héâtre des Noctambules, and since 16 February 1957, actors at the héâtre de la Huchette in the Latin Quarter of Paris have been performing it ive times a week, follow- ing the director Nicolas Bataille’s original conception.