'The Chairs' by Kitchen Dog Theater

From Lawson Taitte, The Dallas Morning News: Our theaters may not produce a large number of great classics from theater history these days, but the ones they are doing are certainly among the very greatest — and most challenging. Kitchen Dog Theater, for instance, is mounting The Chairs. This “tragic farce” is the most resonant of all the works of Eugène Ionesco, the Romanian-born French playwright who, along with Samuel Beckett, invented the theater of the absurd. An elderly couple spends the entire… Show more play setting up onstage chairs to prepare for a visitor who will make a great announcement. Kitchen Dog is bringing out the big guns for this one. Shakespeare Dallas boss Raphael Parry and Kitchen Dog company member Rhonda Boutte star. Both have demonstrated their abilities to make something grand and deep out of grotesque comedy since they worked together at Undermain Theatre years ago, but this is the first time they have actually shared a stage. Their director is Tim Johnson, who has repeatedly shown a knack for staging the edgiest plays.

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