Title: Exit the King
Author: Eugene Ionesco
Language/Translator(s): Translated from the French by Donald Watson
Year of Original Publication: 1962
Genre/Length/Structure: full length with no act or scene divisions
Agency Controlling License: Samuel French
Sammual French Royalty Fee(s): $75 per performance
Cast Breakdown (M/F): 3M/3F
Time and Setting: non disclosed time/the King's Throne Room
Brief Bio of Author: French/Romanian writer who studied in both France and Romania, but loved his mother's home land of France. He wrote his first play when he was 37, The Bald Soprano, and it inspired the Theater of the Absurd. He used the character Berenger in many of his plays as a semi-autobiographical character.
Brief Plot Summary: reminiscent of Everyman the king is told he is about to die and he dose not accept it, but as he and his kingdom wither and melt into oblivion he slowly starts to accepts the inevitability of death that come to us all.
