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.

Ionesco replied, " I have the feeling that these writers – who are serious and important -- were talking about absurdity and death, but that they never really lived these themes, that they did not feel them within themselves in an almost irrational, visceral way, that all this was not deeply inscribed in their language.

* 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.

Ionesco accused Sartre of supporting Communism but ignoring the atrocities committed by Communists ; he wrote Rhinoceros as a criticism of blind conformity, whether it be to Nazism or Communism ; at the end of the play, one man remains on Earth resisting transformation into a rhinoceros Sartre criticized Rhinoceros by questioning: " Why is there one man who resists?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

* Rhinoceros ( play ), by Eugène Ionesco

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

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 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.

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.

* 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.

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,

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.

* My Lobotomy Radio story: Interview with Sallie Ellen Ionesco Lobotomised in 1946

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

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.

Ionesco followed this with The Lesson ( La Leçon ) in 1951 and The Chairs ( Les Chaises ) in 1952.

With the addition of drummer Derek Grant, Alkaline Trio's family tree has grown to include ties with bands such as The Suicide Machines, Thoughts of Ionesco, Walls of Jericho, and Gyga.

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

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.

Good Mourning followed in 2003, marking the band's first album with drummer Derek Grant, formerly of Suicide Machines and Thoughts of Ionesco.

He was previously a member of The Suicide Machines, Telegraph, Gyga, Thoughts of Ionesco, Remainder, Walls of Jericho, The Exceptions and Broken Spoke, a side band with Royce Nunley and Jay Navarro.

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.

She introduced Bertold Brecht into Marathi theatre with adaptation of The Caucasian Chalk Circle ( Ajab Nyay Vartulacha ), and Ionesco with Chairs.

In 1946, Ionesco indicated to Petru Comarnescu that he did not want to see either Eliade or Cioran, and that he considered the two of them " Legionaries for ever "— adding " we are hyenas to one another ".

Many characters appear as automatons stuck in routines speaking only in cliché ( Ionesco called the Old Man and Old Woman in The Chairs " uber-marrionettes ").

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the so-called avant-garde Parisian theater, " New Theater " or " Theatre of the Absurd " around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.