A Hell of a Mess
Eugene Ionesco
Hunger and Thirst
by Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson
Synopsis
A man flees from his family and wanders about the world seeking answers.
Finally he comes to a monastery whose monks act out the game of existential freedom, forcing them to confess belief in God to receive food.
Religion is shown as a matter of habit or force, devoid of freedom, constructed to fill voids in the human heart.
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"A remarkable play, an astonishing work of a great playwright's unique imagination...Although it has moments as madly entertaining as a Marx Brothers movie, this is a profoundly serious work about a man's hunger and thirst for happiness."
— Boston Record American
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Hunger and Thirst is a play written by Eugene Ionesco and published by Samuel French .
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