Author: Eugène Ionesco
Date: 1965
Genre: Absurdist, Play
Country: France
A Stroll in the Air concerns Monsieur Berenger who is the hero of many of Ionesco’s plays, including Rhinoceros. What happens to Berenger, his wife and daughter — a French family living for unstated reasons in England — is the source and substance of the play, for Berenger discovers one day he has the miraculous gift of freeing himself from the law of gravity. How the English react to this oddity also reveals Ionesco’s feelings about the insular people with whom he has been fascinated since his earliest plays.