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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...
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    Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian French playwright, one of the foremost composers of French avant-garde theatre and a leader of absurdism. Ionesco's The...
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    and Eugène Ionesco. Esslin says that their plays have a common denominator—the "absurd", a word that Esslin defines with a quotation from Ionesco: "absurd...
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  • Ionescu (redirect from Ionesco)
    long jumper Carmen Ionesco, Canadian discus thrower of Romanian descent Eugène Ionesco, playwright Eva Ionesco, actress Irina Ionesco, photographer Nicole...
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    The Lesson (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
    (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...
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    Lycée Eugène-Ionesco is a senior high-school in the commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, in the Paris metropolitan area of France. It consists...
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    The Chairs (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
    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...
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    The Bald Soprano (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
    Prima Donna – is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco. Nicolas Bataille directed the premiere on 11 May 1950 at the Théâtre...
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  • Rhinoceros (play) (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
    Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde...
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  • Exit the King (category Plays by Eugène Ionesco)
    Le Roi se meurt) is an absurdist drama by Eugène Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionesco's "Berenger Cycle", preceded by The Killer...
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