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Plays, Vol 5: Exit the King / The Motor Show / Foursome
Plays Vol 5 Exit the King / The Motor Show / Foursome Author:Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson (Translator) This fifth volume of the collected plays contains the full-length Exit the King and two short plays The Motor Show and Foursome. In Exit the King, M. Ionesco has succeeded in capturing the average man's fear of death, his inability to accept it, think about it or face it, and he plots out the stages at which accep... more »tance becomes possible. In many ways, it is the author's most moving play to date; simple, compassionate, with moments of great tenderness and much humour. It has, in fact, a Shakespearian touch and was interpreted in Britain by Sir Alec Guinness. The Motor Show is a surrealistic, very funny little farce about a couple trying to buy a car and Foursome is one of those exercises in fast dialogue at which Ionesco has always excelled.« less