Eugène Ionesco (French: [øʒɛn jɔnɛsko]; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: [e.uˈdʒen joˈnesku] ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright...
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and Eugène Ionesco. Esslin says that their plays have a common denominator—the "absurd", a word that Esslin defines with a quotation from Ionesco: "absurd...
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Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian French playwright, one of the foremost composers of French avant-garde theatre and a leader of absurdism. Ionesco's The...
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The Chairs (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
The Chairs (French: Les Chaises) is a one-act play by Eugène Ionesco, described as an absurdist "tragic farce". It was first performed in Paris in 1952...
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The Lesson (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
(French: La Leçon) is a one-act play by French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco. It was first performed in 1951 in a production directed by Marcel Cuvelier...
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by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Jacques Mauclair, Théâtre Gramont 1966 : Spectacle Beckett-Ionesco-Pinget including Délire à deux by Eugène Ionesco, directed...
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The Bald Soprano (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
Prima Donna – is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco. Nicolas Bataille directed the premiere on 11 May 1950 at the Théâtre...
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Lycée Eugène-Ionesco is a senior high-school in the commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, in the Paris metropolitan area of France. It consists...
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Redmond joined Alun Armstrong and William Gaunt in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Ustinov Studio in Bath. In 2018 Redmond appeared...
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Rhinoceros (play) (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde...
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week." In 1957–58, he played in the musical Free as Air and then toured in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. He joined the Bristol Old Vic and was there...
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Exit the King (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
Le Roi se meurt) is an absurdist drama by Eugène Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionesco's "Berenger Cycle", preceded by The Killer...
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found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. His middle period comprised plays that explored the...
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Beauvoir, Eco, Ionesco, Kundera, Duras, and Rushdie List of recipients of the Jerusalem Prize (Israel) – including de Beauvoir, Ionesco, Kundera, Borges...
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Celan". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 1 January 2024. "Nomination archive – Eugène Ionesco". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 1 January 2024. "Nomination archive – Tudor...
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" He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. Gao's drama...
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for playing Eugène Ionesco's absurdist double-bill of The Lesson and The Bald Soprano in permanent repertory since 1957, as "Spectacle Ionesco." Today, a...
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Eugene Field (1850–1895), American writer, columnist and children's poet Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994), Romanian-French playwright and dramatist Eugène Marin...
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Macbett (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
Macbett is Eugène Ionesco's satire on Shakespeare's Macbeth first staged in 1972. Two generals, Macbett and Banco, put down a rebellion. In payment for...
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Play, Best Director and Best Actor for the play The Chairs written by Eugène Ionesco at the prestigious Dr. S. K. Muranjan intra-college competition in 1989...
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Les muses sataniques (1983), Ce tant bizarre Monsieur Rops (2000) and Eugène Ionesco, voix et silences (1987). Zéno created a "video" department at the Académie...
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The Hermit (novel) (category Novels by Eugène Ionesco)
the only novel written by the Romanian-French absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco. The Hermit follows an unnamed middle-aged Frenchman—a solitary, ineffectual...
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Zombie Strippers (category Eugène Ionesco)
Custodio as Kwan The film is loosely inspired by the play Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco, in which the characters exhibit indifference when people around them...
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One of the disciples of actress Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra and writer Eugène Ionesco, Radu Beligan is generally regarded as one of the major names of the...
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(1903–1995) Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) Georges Schehadé (1905–1989) Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994) Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) Jean Genet (1910–1986) Albert Camus...
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524. Eugène Ionesco. Present past, past present: a personal memoir. Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN 0-306-80835-8. pg. 148. Rosette C. Lamont. Ionesco's imperatives:...
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nominated in 1964. Nineteen of them were nominated first-time, among them Eugène Ionesco, Paul Celan, José María Pemán, Hossein Ghods-Nakhai, James T. Farrell...
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Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
It (French: Amédée ou comment s'en débarrasser) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1954 based on his earlier short story entitled "Oriflamme". The premise...
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anticipating the theatre of Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Aymé, Harold Pinter, and Eugène Ionesco. He calls language itself into question, demystifying law, ridiculing...
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