Ustinov Studio, BathIonesco's imperfect study of a power-crazed monarch facing death is helped by a powerful performance from Alun ArmstrongIn early plays such as The Bald Prima Donna and The Chairs, Eugène Ionesco found perfect metaphors for the absurdity of bourgeois life or the human condition at large. But in Exit the King, a later work from 1962, he aims for a pseudo-classical, blackly comic grandeur that, in s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AM on May 15, 2018