The Killer
Killer, The (Tueur sans gages) Author: Eugène Ionesco
First Performance: 1959, Paris
Published: 1958
First English Translation: 1960
Genre: Drama in 3 acts; French prose
Setting: Paris, mid-20th c.
Cast: 15m, 3f, extras
Bérenger, an ordinary French citizen, is hugely impressed by a ‘radiant city within a city’, proudly shown to him by the Architect, who says that it never rains there. The only drawback is that there is a remorseless killer on the loose in the area. The Architect's secretary Dany, with whom Bérenger promptly falls in love, becomes the Killer's next victim. Resolving to do something, Bérenger returns to his apartment to discover that his invalid friend has a briefcase containing the Killer's plans for mass extermination. Bérenger persuades his friend that they...
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