The New Tenant

The New Tenant
Written byEugène Ionesco[1]
Date premiered1955
Place premieredLilla Teatern
Original languageFrench
GenreTheatre of the Absurd

The New Tenant (French: Le Nouveau Locataire) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1953, [2] translated by Donald Watson in 1956,[3] It premiered in 1955 in Lilla Teatern in Helsinki, Finland, directed by Vivica Bandler.[4]

The central image is common to many Ionesco plays: something accumulates on stage and overwhelms the characters. In this case its furniture. The main characters are a gentleman, a caretaker, and two movers. The caretaker talks as the gentleman, the "new tenant" of the title, directs the two movers who continuously bring in furniture.

References

  1. ^ Charles Derry (21 December 2009). Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century. McFarland. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-0-7864-5695-6.
  2. ^ Gale Research Company (2010). Twentieth-century Literary Criticism. Gale Research Company. ISBN 978-1-4144-3873-3.Page 190
  3. ^ Sorrel Kerbel (23 November 2004). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. pp. 662–. ISBN 978-1-135-45606-1.
  4. ^ Christopher B. Balme; Berenika Szymanski-Düll (5 June 2017). Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War. Springer. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-3-319-48084-8.