How did The Bald Soprano help inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd?

Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano (1950) helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd by rejecting traditional dramatic structures in favor of an "antiplay" format.12

The play revolutionized theatrical techniques by exposing the inadequacies of language and the futility of human communication. Inspired by the stilted, repetitive phrases found in an English language textbook, Ionesco crafted a series of meaningless conversations and senseless platitudes. By having characters repeat the obvious until it devolved into nonsense, the play highlighted the absurdity of bourgeois social conventions and the mechanical nature of modern life.123

This approach dismantled the logical progression of conventional theatre, replacing it with a "dazzling comic surface" that masked a deeper, metaphysical distress. By demonstrating that characters could perform frantically without achieving any meaningful change in their existence, The Bald Soprano established the core tenets of the Absurdist movement: a pessimistic vision of humanity struggling vainly to find purpose in a world devoid of it.3