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According to Ionesco, he had several possible endings in mind, including a climax in which the " author " or " manager " antagonizes the audience, and even a version in which the audience would be shot with machine guns.

However this was ultimately settled for a cheaper solution, the cycle.

Ionesco told Claude Bonnefoy 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 and the second time with the Martins, to suggest the interchangeable nature of the characters: the Smiths are the Martins and the Martins are the Smiths ".