I'm reading some Ionesco today. Since i bought a book of 4 of his plays over the net i'd only had a chance to read half of the Bald Soprano because I lent the book to Amanda.

But I just read the Bald Soprano again, and how I love it.

It's made me realise that often plays and things about strange things happening, are often really about the normal things we take for granted.

It's like when you answer the phone fully expecting it to taste salty, only to discover the person on the other end doesn't own a phone.

Do you think the key to it is about setting up the expectation, more than it is about something weird happening?

Like when Mary says that her real name is Sherlock Holmes, only to us the audience. We take for granted that it's a secret from the rest of the characters. But then Mr Martin some pages on quite casually refers to her being a good detective. The funny comes from being wrong footed rather than there being anything funny about detectives.

I reaaaaaaly like the Bald Soprano.

Was it Adam that told me he was inspired by reading foreign language phrase books? The rosetta stone software is a bit weird in the same way. You have to learn sentances like "The man in red is sitting on the baby".