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The New Tenant

Short Play, Comedy  /  1w, 3m

Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson

By Eugene Ionesco
Translated by Donald Watson

A new tenant moves into his house, and as in "The Chairs," so does the furniture. More and more furniture comes in. And still more. Finally there is a complete wall of furniture around the tenant, and when the last piece is crammed in, he is happily alone in his new room, and from the depths asks…

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce

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A new tenant moves into his house, and as in "The Chairs," so does the furniture. More and more furniture comes in. And still more. Finally there is a complete wall of furniture around the tenant, and when the last piece is crammed in, he is happily alone in his new room, and from the depths asks someone to turn out the lights.

Published in Three Plays by Ionesco.

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Eugene Ionesco

(born Nov. 26, 1909, Slatina, Rom.died March 28, 1994, Paris, France) was a Romanian-born French playwright. He studied in Bucharest and Paris, where he lived from 1945. His first one-act antiplay, The Bald Soprano (1950), inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and help ...
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Donald Watson

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