Dramaturgy of Eugene Ionesco

Abstract

Eugene Ionesco was a major influence in the post-Beckett dramatic scenario. It is probably unjust to simply label his plays as “absurd”. Ionesco experimented both with the theme and the content to capture and communicate the essence of a decimated human existence in a post war world of uncertainties. The paper tries to look into his dramatic art and correlate it with the canon of the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’