Le Roi se meurt
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Le Roi se meurt (English Exit the King) is an absurdist drama by Eugene Ionesco that premiered in 1962. Berenger, the main character from his more well-known play, Rhinoceros, also appears here as King Berenger the First. The play centers around Berenger's rule in an unnamed country, which he has incompetently managed into utter disarray and his emotions about his mortality. The play was filmed for television in 1978 in a production directed by Yves-André Hubert and again in 2006.