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Ionescos avantgarde play about language is paired with edward albees the zoo story for the first production in john carrolls little theatre. These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. New e book rhinoceros, the chairs, the lesson penguin plays. Boeuf joins her rhinoceros husband by leaping onto his back and riding away. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. This feeling only intensified with the introduction in later lessons of the.
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