What is the setting of Four Plays by Eugene Ionesco?

All four plays are set within a certain set of physical, visual confines - essentially, within a single room. The Smiths' tidy "English" living room is the ironically perfect setting for the untidy breakdown in manners and communication in The Bald Soprano. The Professor's academically equipped study in is the perfect atmosphere to support the tyranny of language that unfolds in The Lesson. Jack's apartment is gloomy and oppressive..... effectively evocative of the oppressive will of his family that Jack eventually gives in to, and the circular, lighthouse-like setting for The Chairs is profoundly effective in suggesting the various levels of desperate isolation in which the Old Man and Woman find themselves living out their lives.