An old woman prepares her house for guests who will arrive to hear an important message for mankind. There the similarity to Ionesco ends. In this performance, each of the 29 chairs who rings the doorbell is a unique performing object that has something urgent to tell us. The chairs are incarnations of famous people, such as Stephen Hawking, Gertrude Stein, Malala, and Yoko Ono, as well as unknown men and women who are trying to survive in a harsh world.
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