One of this author's characters initially refuses to retell a story involving a pot-bellied idiot with a trunk full of rice that begins "then at last we arrived".
In one of this author's plays, a single actor is tasked with playing the roles of a rag-and-bone man, a butterfly catcher, and a lemonade seller. One of this author's characters initially refuses to retell a story involving a pot-bellied idiot with a trunk full of rice that begins "then at last we arrived". Another of his characters misuses syllogisms to prove that both a dog and Socrates are cats. This author of (*) Macbett wrote a play which ends with the main characters jumping out of a tower as the Emperor arrives, followed by the revelation that the Orator is a deaf-mute. In another of his plays, Mr. Boeuf, Mr. Papillon, Botard and Dudard, Jean, and Daisy, but not Berenger, eventually transform into the title animals. For 10 points, name this Romanian absurdist who wrote The Chairs and Rhinoceros.
In one of this author's plays, a single actor is tasked with playing the roles of a rag-and-bone man, a butterfly catcher, and a lemonade seller.
Eugène Ionesco [or Eugen Ionescu]