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The Killing Game

Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire  /  10w, 10m

Helen Gary Bishop, Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco
Translated by Helen Gary Bishop

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    10w, 10m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Summary
One of Ionesco's last plays, set in a small bourgeois town beset suddenly by plague. As the dead bodies literally pile up before the audiences's eyes and a cloaked figure of death treads the city streets, The Killing Game takes a piercing, frighteningly funny look at the proclivity of a small, previously comfortable community to gossip, paranoia, hypocrisy, and opportunism in the face of crisis.
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  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Helen Gary Bishop

Eugene Ionesco

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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