Stage directions in one of this man's dramas instruct the title character, an aging monarch, to stand up and fall over repeatedly "in the manner of a tragic Punch and Judy show.
Stage directions in one of this man's dramas instruct the title character, an aging monarch, to stand up and fall over repeatedly "in the manner of a tragic Punch and Judy show." The title character of that play, Exit the King, is Berenger, which is also the name of the protagonist of this man's play set in the Radiant City, The Killer. Most of this man's plays have barebones sets and few characters, such as one set in a circular room in a circular tower that houses the plays three characters, the Old Man, the Old Woman, and the Orator,and another whose sole characters are the professor, the pupil, and the maid. The Chairs and The Lesson are less known, however, than two other plays, one whose title character "always wears her hair in the same style" and another most of whose characters transform into the title kind of creature. FTP name this absurdist playwright of The Bald Soprano and The Rhinoceros.
Stage directions in one of this man's dramas instruct the title character, an aging monarch, to stand up and fall over repeatedly "in the manner of a tragic Punch and Judy show.
Eugene Ionesco