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THERE are many stories about the strange kinship between the haphazard logic of Eugene Ionesco’s life ... that it was precisely this play, assuredly far from his best, which established his ...
Foothill Theatre Arts will present Eugene Ionesco's absurdist comedy Rhinoceros, in which a sleepy town is overrun - literally - by a stampede of conformity. See here for more details!
When theatergoers in Dusseldorf, Germany sat down one October evening in 1959 to watch the world premiere of Eugene Ionesco’s latest work, they witnessed a strange, new kind of play ...
one of the best casts assembled for a play in recent memory at one of the best theaters in Dallas cannot breathe life into Eugène Ionesco’s Exit the King. Seen at Sunday’s matinee ...
When I was 9, I had a walk-on part in an amateur theater production of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist ... he had witnessed the very behavior the play satirizes. Ionesco, an impish, sad-faced ...
Eugène Ionesco's absurdist comedy is set in the crumbling throne-room of the palace in an unnamed country where King Berenger the First has only the duration of the play to live. Once ...
Eugène Ionesco (born ... garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano which contributed ...
Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 absurdist play Rhinoceros has long been seen as an allegory for the rise of fascism, showing how people are gaslighted, coerced and coddled into putting up with a bizarre ...
The Bald Soprano, the debut play by Romanian-French avant-gardist Eugène Ionesco, has been running in a tiny venue in Paris's Latin Quarter for a record 67 years. RFI looks at what's behind its ...
A loose adaptation of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros ... became popular in Israel after Ionesco’s play — ends up surprisingly slight. A few scattered references ...
Sanaz Saei-Dibavar is the translator of the one-act play first published in Viridis Candela, the journal of the Collège de ‘Pataphysique. The first performance was in Paris at the theatre de la ...