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Eugene Ionesco
A Hell of a Mess
by Eugene Ionesco, Tom Bishop, Helen Gary Bishop
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Synopsis
The hero, after working in an office for years, inherits money from a rich uncle and moves to a respectable apartment.
He begins a brief, pointless love affair with a waitress.
Violence breaks out and bloodshed occurs on his doorstep.
The revolution wins, then abates, and a new regime takes over.
As these events swirl around him and change the world, he goes on reading the paper, drinking too much.
The serio-comic turns push the polite conventionalities of middle-class life to the point of madness and barely hide the author's despair at the insularity of human existence.
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Publisher Samuel French
A Hell of a Mess is a comedy play written by Eugene Ionesco and published by Samuel French .
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