What is the author's tone in Four Plays by Eugene Ionesco?

There is the very clear sense that the use of language, in both dialogue and in the extensive stage directions, is evocative of the individual tone and action of each play. The conversations in The Bald Soprano are vividly suggestive of (perhaps stereotypical) polite, chatty exchanges in upper-middle class societies everywhere, not just in England (where the play is ostentatiously set). The language usage in The Lesson is particularly intriguing, in that discussions of word usage and origin are the primary motivator of the conflict. Tone and emotion is the most noteworthy characteristic of the language in Jack ... which, in spite of the absurdity of the actual words and images used, still manages to convey relationship and intention quite clearly. The same can also be said of The Chairs, in which the language used by the Old Man and Woman, again in spite of the frequent absurdity of the images, is quite clearly evocative of their desperate emotional state.