Exit the King

By Eugène Ionesco

Book Overview

First produced in 1963 starring Alec Guinness and successfully revived to great acclaim on Broadway in 2009, this absurdist exploration of ego and mortality is set in the crumbling throne-room of the palace in an unnamed country where King Berenger the First has only the duration of the play to live.3 women, 3 men

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0573011230
• ISBN13: 9780573011238
• Release Date: December 1964
• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Exit the King

From the cover: This is a highly stylized, ritualistic death rite, depicting the final hours of the once-great Berenger I. In his throne room, surrounded by his two wives and a few other members of the decayed court, Berenger inexorably moves toward his death, first discovering, then rejecting, and finally accepting its inevitability. As the monarch dies, his kingdom dies with him.