Germaine Tailleferre of the French group Les Six wrote several works which could be considered to be inspired by Surrealism, including the 1948 Ballet Paris-Magie ( scenario by Lise Deharme ), the Operas La Petite Sirène ( book by Philippe Soupault ) and Le Maître ( book by Eugène Ionesco ).

Eugène Ionesco in particular was fond of Surrealism, claiming at one point that Breton was one of the most important thinkers in history.

* The Killer ( play ), English title of Tueur sans gages, a play by Eugène Ionesco

At 17, she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play, Exit the King.

He began to lose the favor of audiences and critics alike, however, with the emergence of such playwrights as Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.

They include: peace movements, strikes, labor unions, long hair on men, The Beatles, other modern and popular music (" la musique populaire "), Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Aeschylus, writing that Socrates was homosexual, Eugène Ionesco, Jean-Paul Sartre, Anton Chekhov, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Mark Twain, Samuel Beckett, the bar association, sociology, international encyclopedias, free press, and new math.

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Playwrights commonly associated with the Theatre of the Absurd include Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal and Edward Albee.

In the first ( 1961 ) edition, Esslin presented the four defining playwrights of the movement as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet, and in subsequent editions he added a fifth playwright, Harold Pinter – although each of these writers has unique preoccupations and characteristics that go beyond the term " absurd.

Many other Absurdists were born elsewhere but lived in France, writing often in French: Samuel Beckett from Ireland ; Eugène Ionesco from Romania ; Arthur Adamov from Russia ; Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal from Spain.

* Eugène Ionesco

* Ionesco, Eugène.

* Gaensbauer, Deborah B. Eugène Ionesco Revisited.

* Reading of Samuel Beckett ’ s ' Krapp ’ s Last Tape ', Luigi Pirandello ’ s ' Henry IV ' and Eugène Ionesco ’ s ' Rhinoceros '

Here, Mirbeau can be seen as anticipating the theatre of Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Aymé, Harold Pinter, and Eugène Ionesco.

The transition he went through was similar to that of his fellow generation members and close collaborators — among the notable exceptions to this rule were Petru Comarnescu, sociologist Henri H. Stahl and future dramatist Eugène Ionesco, as well as Sebastian.

The depolitisation of Eliade after the start of his diplomatic career was also mistrusted by his former close friend Eugène Ionesco, who indicated that, upon the close of World War II, Eliade's personal beliefs as communicated to his friends amounted to " all is over now that Communism has won ".

In 1970 Beck's work was denounced alongside Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett by Nëndori, the literary monthly of Albania, for supposedly being " inundated by mysticism and pornography.

* Eugène Ionesco – Rhinoceros

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Upon his entrance into the University, he met Eugène Ionesco and Mircea Eliade, the three of them becoming lifelong friends.

Yet, he still maintained numerous friends with which he conversed often such as Mircea Eliade, Eugène Ionesco, Paul Celan, Samuel Beckett, and Henri Michaux.

Rhinoceros ( French original title Rhinocéros ) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959.

Category: Plays by Eugène Ionesco

Again at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, in 1902 ( 6 November ) and again with Enrico Caruso, the composer won an enthusiastic reception for Adriana Lecouvreur, a 4-act opera with a libretto by Arturo Colautti, set in 18th century Paris and based upon a play by Eugène Scribe.

By the constitution of the grand duchy, upon Dalberg's death, the state would be inherited by Napoleon's stepson, Eugène de Beauharnais.

* Mrs. Smith, the leading role in a contemporary opera based upon Eugène Ionesco's “ The Bald Soprano ”

Cotten had his first starring role in Welles's second production for the Federal Theatre Project — the farce Horse Eats Hat, adapted by Welles and Edwin Denby from Eugène Labiche's play, Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie.

He had sufficiently recovered from wartime injuries to appear at the London Coliseum on 19 June 1916, as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell ; at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in Charles Goddard & Paul Dickey's play The Misleading Lady ; at the Court Theatre in March 1917 he played Webber in Partnership and at that theatre the following year appeared in Eugène Brieux's play, adapted from the French, Damaged Goods ; at the Ambassadors Theatre in February 1918 he played George Lubin in The Little Brother, and during 1918 toured as David Goldsmith in The Bubble.

His 1955 opera Il cappello di paglia di Firenze ( The Florentine Straw Hat ), an adaptation of the play by Eugène Labiche was presented by the Santa Fe Opera in 1977.

In Eugène Ionesco's play The Chairs, the Old Woman is referred to as Semiramis.

Several authors, including Ioan Petru Culianu, have drawn a parallel between Eugène Ionesco's Absurdist play of 1959, Rhinoceros, which depicts the population of a small town falling victim to a mass metamorphosis, and the impact fascism had on Ionesco's closest friends ( Eliade included ).

The libretto is loosely based on an 1833 play, Gustave III, by French playwright Eugène Scribe who wrote about the historical assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.

He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play.

This was because, in order to support his family, young Eugène had to play full-time in two local orchestras, one conducted by his father.

She appeared with George Devine in the Eugène Ionesco play, The Chairs, Shaw's Major Barbara and Saint Joan.

Talma as Nero in Racine's Britannicus ( play ) | Britannicus, painted by Eugène Delacroix.

La Cantatrice Chauve — translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna — is the first play written by Franco-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco.

In Eugène Ionesco's play Rhinoceros, human individuals turn into rhinoceroses, symbolizing conformity and affirmation of a totalitarian mass movement.

Neoclassicism in his works is further enhanced in his drama and comedies by his adherence to Eugène Scribe's principles ( see Well-made play ).

Fritz Kreisler and Eugène Ysaÿe had declined to play the Divertissement because of its technical demands.

The death of Sardanapalus was the subject of a Romantic Period painting by the 19th-century French painter Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, which was itself based on the 1821 play Sardanapalus by Byron, which in turn was based on Diodorus.

Over the next decades, Adler would play in ( or, in some cases, merely produce ) numerous plays by Gordin, but also classics by Shakespeare, Schiller, Lessing ; Eugène Scribe's La Juive ; dramatizations of George du Maurier's Trilby and Alexandre Dumas, fils ' Camille ; and the works of modern playwrights such as Gorky, Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, Gerhart Hauptmann, Victor Hugo, Victorien Sardou, and Leonid Andreyev.

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé.

* Bérenger, a character in the play Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco