Society Hill Playhouse’s historic Red Room transforms into “a lighthouse at the edge of a watery nighttime universe” for Ionesco’s classic farce celebrating life and laughter, inspired by silent films and vaudeville antics. Brought to you by The IRC: “We Bring Good Nothingness to Life.” Very limited seating.

". . . a daring little company . . . Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium excels at performing absurdist plays." —Philadelphia City Paper.

The IRC was formed in 2006 with the mission of presenting and preserving the classic and lesser-known works from authors of the loosely-defined "Theater of the Absurd": Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee, among others. The company has presented 10 productions since then, including Eugene Ionesco’s Victims of Duty, Foursome, The Leader, and Frenzy for Two; Samuel Beckett’s Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and Come and Go; Christopher Durang’s For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls; Desire, Desire, Desire; A Stye of the Eye, and The Actor’s Nightmare and Edward Albee’s The Sandbox. 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eugene Ionesco. In celebration, the IRC is mounting two of his signature works: The Lesson (February, 2009, "Idiopathic presents a sparkling revival of Ionesco's absurdist parable." —The Philadelphia Inquirer) and The Chairs (Sept 4–16) at The Red Room at Society Hill Playhouse. The IRC: "We Bring Good Nothingness to Life."