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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 who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century.
Theatrical debates of the 1950’s and 60’s began with the avant-garde theatre of Samuel Becket, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht.Performance techniques and theories of alienation or the distancing effect that began with Erwin Piscator and epic theatre became part of this debate.
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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. [1]For Ionesco's Sandaliha (The Chairs), Bahman Mohasses [2] created a number of decorative and expressive chairs that when put together suggested an abstract forest.
However, he ultimately settled for a cheaper solution, the cycle. Ionesco told Claude Bonnefoy [fr; ro] in an interview, "I wanted to give a meaning to the play by having it begin all over again with two characters. In this way the end becomes a new beginning but, since there are two couples in the play, it begins the first time with the Smiths ...
An early significant project at Gallimard was his 1963 design for Raymond Queneau's Exercices de style, a book that retells the same story 99 times, each in a different graphic style. Another landmark work was his 1964 graphic interpretation of Eugène Ionesco's play La Cantatrice chauve (translated as The Bald Prima Donna or The Bald Soprano ...
Victims of Duty (French: Victimes du Devoir) is a one-act play written in 1953 by French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco. An early work, it has not received the notoriety of his other works. This play is in the Theatre of the Absurd style, of which Ionesco was a pioneer.
The Lesson (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 (who also played the Professor). [1] Since 1957 it has been in permanent showing at Paris' Théâtre de la Huchette, on an Ionesco double-bill with The Bald Soprano. [2]