The New Tenant

The New Tenant
Written by	Eugène Ionesco
Date premiered	1955 (1955)
Original language	French
Genre	Theatre of the Absurd

The New Tenant (French: Le Nouveau Locataire) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1955. The central image is common to many Ionesco plays: something accumulates on stage and overwhelms the characters. In this case its furniture. The main characters are a gentleman, a caretaker, and two movers. The caretaker talks as the gentleman, the "new tenant" of the title, directs the two movers who continuously bring in furniture.

Eugène Ionesco

Plays	The Bald Soprano (1950) The Lesson (1951) The Chairs (1952) Victims of Duty (1953) Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It (1954) Jack, or The Submission (1955) The New Tenant (1955) The Picture (1955) The Killer (1958) Rhinoceros (1959) Exit the King (1962) Hunger and Thirst (1964) Macbett (1972)

Novels	The Hermit (1973)

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