"Foursome and the Theater of the Absurd".
In Ionesco's "Foursome" we are introduced to three characters (Dupont, Duran, and Martin) that drags us into a chaotic and absurd world. These three characters strut around the stage each complaining that the other is "talking with out saying anything at all" until the presence of the fourth character, the Pretty Lady. Upon her arrival, the disposition of Dupont, Duran, and Martin changes sharply with fighting over who "owns" the Pretty Lady and trying to win her over with the potted plants. Ionesco uses the experimental techniques of the Theater of the Absurd of a sense of chaos with vague dialogue and an illogical plot to make a social comment on the lack of communication in our world today that has been clouded by materialism. .
Through the vague dialogue of "Foursome" Ionesco develops feeling of disorder for the reader. This sense of madness can be seen through the way the characters speak to one another in convoluted dialogue and with overstated uniformity. The illogical plot is favored in the Theater of the Absurd because it doesn't follow typical standards so that it can better satirize. Through the hard-to-follow plot of "Foursome", the aimless plot shows the audience how Dupont, Duran, and Martin accomplish nothing. Through their fights, which are fragmented, no solution (or even real problem) comes out of it. Rather, theses characters only illustrate the way society fuss over material items and have a block of communication.
"Foursome" attempts to show society today of the way we communicate: indistinctly and scattered. As our main characters Dupont, Duran, and Martin run around the stage, they argue incessantly. However, they never reach an agreement nor do they even realize what they are truly fighting about. Ionesco uses this technique in attempts to show the reader the way modern society has become a matter of "talking without really saying anything".