Summary

Judith Jasmin talks with Eugene Ionesco, the Romanian playwright who has made France his adopted country, shortly before the casting of his play "The King is dying" He talks about his childhood, his studies and the kind of theater that he prefers in his youth; his need for solitude, the absurdity of the world, the lack of communication between people, his plays and the public's reactions toward them, his resistance to Nazism during the war, his views on the intellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett; travel and the City of New York Note: Silent from 10:00:00 to 10:00:34 INTERVIEW Eugene Ionesco Keywords: THEATRE