EUGÈNE IONESCO: ESSENTIAL READING LIST
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- Rhinoceros and Other Plays - Ionesco's classic take on fascism--in which the entire population of a small, provincial French town turn into savage pachyderms.
- The Bald Soprano and Other Plays - A collection of short plays by Ionesco that contains such gems as The Bald Soprano, The Chairs and Jack or the Submission.
- Exit the King, the Killer, and Macbett - Three full-length plays--includes The Killer, one of Ionesco's earliest and most frightening plays.
- Amedee, The New Tenant, and Victims of Duty - Vintage Ionesco, including Amedee, a one-act play in which a corpse appears just outside the bedroom of a middle-class couple--then proceeds to grow larger and larger ... and larger.
- Notes and Counter Notes: Writings on the Theatre - Ionesco explains his dramatic theories. Very insightful.
- If you like these plays, you may also like Three Plays of the Absurd, a collection of modern absurdist comedies with a dark side.
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