The New Tenant Explained

The New Tenant (fr|'''Le Nouveau Locataire''') is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1953, ^[1] translated by Donald Watson in 1956,^[2] It premiered in 1955 in Lilla Teatern in Helsinki, Finland, directed by Vivica Bandler.^[3]

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.

Notes and References

1. Book: Gale Research Company. Twentieth-century Literary Criticism. 2010. Gale Research Company. 978-1-4144-3873-3. Page 190
2. Book: Sorrel Kerbel. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. 23 November 2004. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-135-45606-1. 662–.
3. Book: Christopher B. Balme. Berenika Szymanski-Düll. Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War. 5 June 2017. Springer. 978-3-319-48084-8. 157–.