Words In Action 2014: FRENCH

Deuxième conte pour enfants de moins de trois ans by Eugène Ionesco. This text represents a seemingly ordinary situation in a day of a French family. The father and his daughter, Josette, are at home, while the mother is away. The father has indulged in too much food and drinks and is feeling sick. Josette inquires about the mother's absence and engages in an elaborate, jovial game of hide-and-seek with the father. Their dialogue and playful interaction, filled with tension and misunderstandings, bare characteristics of Ionesco's theater of the absurd.

Performed by Lara Feyza Fasbender (Josette 1), Isaac Chartrand Meyer (Father 1), Hanzhuo (Nancy) Zhang (narrator 1), Sara Imane Dixon (narrator 2), Diana Chiu (Josette 2), Andrew Quoc-Huy Tran (Father 2), Katherine Elizabeth Irwin (Mother)