Screaming with laughter right into the great void of death. Ionesco's landmark play about a King at the end of his 400-year-long life going out with colliding planets and crumbling walls and taking everyone and everything with him.
Directed by iDiOM founder Glenn Hergenhahn-Zhao, Tyler Detrick as King Bringer the First, Annie Loggins as Queen Marguerite, Karianne Nelson-Brannan as Queen Marie, Lucas Naylor as The Doctor, Molly Garrison as Juliette, Michael Nelson-Brannan as The Guard.
First staged in 1962, Exit the King is one of Ionesco’s lasting works of absurd theater, melding biting satire with existential inquiry. As the kingdom decays around him, the 400-year-old King Bérenger refuses to relinquish his throne or confront the inevitability of death. His court—a gallery of tragicomic characters—witnesses his final unraveling as the King struggles to reconcile his crumbling authority with his own mortality.
