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    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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  • Ionescu (redirect from Ionesco)
    long jumper Carmen Ionesco, Canadian discus thrower of Romanian descent Eugène Ionesco, playwright Eva Ionesco, actress Irina Ionesco, photographer Nicole...
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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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    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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    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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    largely known for his animated series Yok-Yok and his collaboration with Eugène Ionesco, Stories 1,2,3,4, as well as his work with child psychologist Jean Piaget...
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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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  • Rhinoceros (play) (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
    Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Auden (1966) Vasko Popa (1967) Václav Havel (1968) Not given (1969) Eugène Ionesco (1970) Peter Huchel (1971) Sławomir Mrożek (1972) Harold Pinter (1973)...
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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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  • Constantin Gheorghiu (1916–1992), novelist Paul Goma (1935–2020), novelist Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994), playwright Salim Jay (b. 1951), novelist (Romanian mother)...
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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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    1969 David, la nuit tombe Bernard Kops Yves Gasc 1970 The New Tenant Eugène Ionesco Pierre Peyrou Je rêve (mais peut-être que non) Luigi Pirandello Pierre...
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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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    in Communist Romania; they include Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, and Eugène Ionesco. Currently, Humanitas publishes literature, books on philosophy, religion...
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  • Joseph Heller – Clevinger's Trial (1973) Israel Horovitz – Line (1974) Eugène Ionesco – The Bald Soprano (1950) Arthur Miller – A Memory of Two Mondays (1955)...
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    translate—adaptations such as the French one, penned in the 1950s by Eugène Ionesco, include a large dose of lexical inventiveness. The Romanian communist...
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