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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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French the most notable of which were Tartuffe by Molière, The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco, The Maids by Jean Genet and Tony Kushner's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's...
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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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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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Vitry-sur-Seine, where she also tried her hand at directing (Macbett by Eugène Ionesco). In 2013, she passed the entrance exam for the free class at the Cours...
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Warehouse, June 2006; Wyndham's Theatre, September 2006 The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco translated by Martin Crimp, The Gate Theatre, November 2006 Equus by...
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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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in Communist Romania; they include Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, and Eugène Ionesco. Currently, Humanitas publishes literature, books on philosophy, religion...
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Rhinoceros (film) (category Eugène Ionesco)
Rhinoceros is a 1974 American comedy film based on the play Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco. The film was produced by Ely Landau for the American Film Theatre,...
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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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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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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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sink' novels Canto General by Pablo Neruda Plays The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco (Romania, France) Genre fiction A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (England...
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