![]() ![]() King Berenger, Ionesco’s recurring little man/everyman figure but with a crown on, is informed at the beginning of the play that he’ll be dead at the end of it. Soulpepper’s new production does the same.The play’s method is to collapse time and to create a metaphor. He makes it funny and he makes it moving. He takes in both the physical and the metaphysical. He covers the whole spectrum of a human being’s attitude towards death. But in this play he did create a universal fable. (He got better.) Solipsism, or maybe just narcissism, was an affliction not unknown to Ionesco he once said that he could write about everybody’s problems by writing about his own. Ionesco, the supposed maestro of the Theatre of the Absurd (a gimcrack term used to bestow a false uniformity on many disparate playwrights, and one that he to his credit disliked) wrote the play in 1962 when serious illness brought him face to face with his own mortality. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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