Ionesco’s work by contrast is a touch more visceral where Becketts is intellectual. The most famous example being Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
Theatre of the Absurd is surrealist theatre that focuses on the search for meaning in a meaningless world. Part of a Parisian playwriting group that included Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Arthur Adamov, Ionesco was described as a practitioner of Theatre of the Absurd. The rise of fascism however and the desperate lengths people will go too to survive, fully stuck with him. He managed to survive World War One, the great depression and dodge World War Two, living with his family in Marseilles. Born in Romania in 1912, he moved to France as a kid and then fluctuated between the two nations for the rest of his life.
His works are visceral, hilarious, dark, strange and funny with a cutting view of the insanity of capitalism, fascism, government, society and people. One of the truly most creative, surreal and fascinating playwrights of the 20th century Eugene Ionesco stands tall amongst a sea of brilliant existential surreal absurdist playwrights of his time.
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