the absurd - the essential - the manifesto

The man and woman prepare chairs for invisible guests including an invisible Emperor. In between the arrival of invisible guests the man and woman sit on opposite chairs listen to the conversations between their invisible guests. After the invisible guests have arrived the man states that he and his wife can finally die knowing that his story and philosophy will be told and they commit suicide by throwing themselves out of the window. When the Orator finally speaks to the invisible crowd it is revealed that he is a deaf mute and neither the sounds he makes nor the words he writes on the blackboard can be understood. The play ends with the Orator leaving - plot summary from the web

At the end, at the end of the end of the city of Paris, there was, there was, was what?" — Old Man
"The further one goes, the deeper one sinks. It's because the earth keeps turning around, around, around, around" — Old Man

Eugene Ionesco - The Chairs


Constantin Brancusi






DADA knows everything. DADA spits everything out.

BUT . . . . . . . . .

HAS DADA EVER SPOKEN TO YOU:
about Italy
about accordions
about women's pants
about the fatherland
about sardines
about Fiume
about Art (you exaggerate my friend)
about gentleness
about D'Annunzio
what a horror
about heroism
about mustaches
about lewdness
about sleeping with Verlaine
about the ideal (it's nice)
about Massachusetts
about the past
about odors
about salads
about genius, about genius, about genius
about the eight-hour day
about the Parma violets

NEVER NEVER NEVER

DADA doesn't speak. DADA has no fixed idea. DADA doesn't catch flies.

THE MINISTRY IS OVERTURNED. BY WHOM?


BY DADA

The Futurist is dead. Of What? Of DADA

A Young girl commits suicide. Because of What? DADA
The spirits are telephoned. Who invented it? DADA
Someone walks on your feet. It's DADA
If you have serious ideas about life,
If you make artistic discoveries
and if all of a sudden your head begins to crackle with laughter,
If you find all your ideas useless and ridiculous, know that

IT IS DADA BEGINNING TO SPEAK TO YOU
Dada Manifesto