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The Leader

Short Play, Satire/Political Satire  /  2w, 4m

Eugene Ionesco, Derek Prouse

By Eugene Ionesco
Translated by Derek Prouse

A satire on mass adulation of political leaders. We open with an announcement proclaiming the arrival of the leader, while th crowd cheers. Finally, the leader arrives, and all are startled to see that he has no head beneath his hat. But "what's he need a head for when he's not a genius!"

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A satire on mass adulation of political leaders. We open with an announcement proclaiming the arrival of the leader, while th crowd cheers. Finally, the leader arrives, and all are startled to see that he has no head beneath his hat. But "what's he need a head for when he's not a genius!"

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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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