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

Hints of Beckett and Ionesco materialize here and there, but mostly because the human brain reflexively tries to extract absurdist meaningfulness in any quantity it can.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2019

“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

As Madame Ionesco herself once said, “A curse is like a contract. It’s all in the wording.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood