Ionesco

American  

[yuh-nes-koh, ee-uh-] / yəˈnɛs koʊ, i ə- /

noun

1. Eugène 1912–94, French playwright, born in Romania.

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Ionesco British  

/ jɔnɛsko, ˌiːəˈnɛskəʊ /

noun

1. Eugène (øʒɛn). 1912–94, French dramatist, born in Romania; a leading exponent of the theatre of the absurd. His plays include The Bald Prima Donna (1950) and Rhinoceros (1960)

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Example Sentences

Theatre of the Absurd pioneer Ionesco had called it an anti-Nazi play.

From Reuters • Nov. 24, 2021

He also tried his hand at theater directing, putting on a well-received program of Beckett and Ionesco plays in Los Angeles in 1961.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

Martin, meanwhile, channels Beckett or Ionesco as he lectures on “space and time. Spacetime.”

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2020

“It’s an absurdist black comedy-political allegory in the tradition of Ionesco that sometimes employs blank-verse iambic pentameter,” Lane said.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2019

“Madame Ionesco, if a person—two persons to be precise—are not actually dead, but merely absent, would your soothsaying powers still enable you to send them a message?”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood