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13) Killing game
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Publisher
Grove Press : distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
16) Rhinoceros
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceri. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it something else entirely?
Author
Language
English
Description
In Rhinoceros, as in his other plays, Eugene Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the "movement" is universal. This is not an invasion of wild animals, but a transformation of average citizens into beasts, as they learn to move with the times. As the curtain...
Author
Language
English
Description
Three classic plays exploring the absurdity of death and modern complacency by the 20th century master of French avant-garde theatre.
Exit the King presents a ritualized death rite unfolding the final hours of the once-great king Berenger the First. As he dies, so does his kingdom. His armies suffer defeat, the young emigrate, and his kingdom's borders shrink to the outline of his throne.
The Killer is a study of pure evil. B'renger, a conscientious...
19) The Bald Soprano
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Language
English
Description
Written in 1950, Eugene Ionesco's first play, The Bald Soprano, was a seminal work of Absurdist theatre. Today, it is celebrated around the world as a modern classic for its imagination and sui generis theatricality. A hilarious parody of English manners and a striking statement on the alienation of modern life, it was inspired by the strange dialogues Ionesco encountered in foreign language phrase books.
Author
Language
English
Description
In Amédée, the title character and his wife have a problem-not so much the corpse in their bedroom as the fact that it's been there for fifteen years and is now growing, slowly but surely crowding them out of their apartment.
In The New Tenant, a similar crowding is caused by an excess of furniture-as Harold Hobson said in the London Times, "there is not a dramatist ... who can make furniture speak as eloquently as Ionesco, and here he makes it...