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.

Ionesco, however, hated Sartre bitterly.

In a 1966 interview, Claude Bonnefoy, comparing the Absurdists to Sartre and Camus, said to Ionesco, " It seems to me that Beckett, Adamov and yourself started out less from philosophical reflections or a return to classical sources, than from first-hand experience and a desire to find a new theatrical expression that would enable you to render this experience in all its acuteness and also its immediacy.

Early seasons included new international plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Marguerite Duras.

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 ".

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 ).

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

The Alfred Jarry Theatre, founded by Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, housed several Absurdist plays, including ones by Ionesco and Adamov.

Ionesco, Adamov, and Arrabal for example, were friends with Surrealists still living in Paris at the time including Paul Eluard and André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, and Beckett translated many Surrealist poems by Breton and others from French into English.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

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.

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

* Ionesco, Eugene, ( Translated into English by Derek Prouse ), Rhinoceros and Other Plays, New York: Grove Press, 1960.

Category: Plays by Eugène Ionesco

** Preface by Eugène Ionesco, Les Volcans, Paris: Draeger-Vilo, 1975, 174 pp.

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.

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.

Category: Plays by Eugène Ionesco

For example, The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco is essentially a series of clichés taken from a language textbook.

His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations are inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett.

Category: Plays by Eugène Ionesco

* Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco,

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.

For example, in Ionesco's Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It, a couple must deal with a corpse that is steadily growing larger and larger ; Ionesco never fully reveals the identity of the corpse, how this person died, or why it's continually growing, but the corpse ultimately – and, again, without explanation – floats away.

Furthermore, Josef Hiršal built a reputation as a translator of foreign works into the Czech language, translating the works of, among others, Christian Morgenstern, Ernst Jandl, Eugène Ionesco, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Heinrich Heine, H. C. Artmann, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Fernando Pessoa and Torquato Tasso ; in 1989, he received the Grand Austrian State Prize for his translations.

Grove published French avant-garde of the era, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Genet, and Eugène Ionesco ; most of the American Beats of the 1950s, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg ; and poets associated with Black Mountain and the San Francisco Renaissance such as Robert Duncan.

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

* Eugène Ionesco – Rhinoceros

* 1964 Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Lucian Giurchescu

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

* Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco ( 2005 )

* Rhinoceros ( play ), by Eugène Ionesco

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

Ionesco states in an essay written to his critics, that he had no intention of parody, but if he were parodying anything, it would be everything.

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.

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

Outside Romania, Eugène Ionesco and Emil Cioran represented the national spirit at the highest level.

Ambrose recently returned to Broadway in Exit the King ( by Eugene Ionesco ) at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway, opposite Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon.

Eva Ionesco made her movie début at the age of eleven in 1976, playing a child in Roman Polanski's movie The Tenant.

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

Eugène Ionesco commented upon rote learning in his play " The Lesson ":

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

The idea of the play came to Ionesco while he was trying to learn English with the Assimil method.

In the play, Ionesco depicts religion as an expression of conformism and of the alienation of idealism to the establishment.