The New Tenant By Eugene Ionesco

Duration: 31

Year Published: 1975

Creator: ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA EDUC. (FILM

Format: 16mm

Copyright: Registered 13Nov75 · MP30954 (Jan-Jun 1977) Copyright holder: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation

Description: Almost a vaudeville act, this play from the Theater of the Absurd expresses Ionesco's (and our) sense of the ambiguity and incoherence of much of modern life. The scene opens in an empty room at the top of a six-story walk-up. Soon the new tenant arrives--and begins filling the room with furniture. Piece by piece, stack upon stack, chairs and bureaus fill the room. Finally the man is crowded into a tiny square--isolated, lost, barricaded by four walls of his own furniture, in this peculiar way, he has cut himself off from the world; he has created for himself a kind of death.

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