Sarandon and Rush Will 'EXIT THE KING' at the Barrymore?

The New York Post's Michael Riedel is reporting that  Oscar winners, Geoffrey Rush  and Susan Sarandon will be making their Broadway debuts in Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King." 

He reveals the production aims to open at the Barrymore in the spring, after "Speed-the-Plow" ends its limited run.

Riedel reports he saw "Exit The King" in Australia, where it received glowing reviews at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney last year. He raves that Rush, as a king whose empire is crumbling, was brilliant.

He describes the story as "at the start of the 1962 play, the monarch is dying. But King Berenger I isn't giving up without a fight. As Ionesco, who died in 1994, said of "Exit the King": "I told myself that one could learn to die, that I could learn to die, that one can also help other people to die. This seems to me the most important thing we can do, since we're all of us dying men who refuse to die. The play is an attempt at an apprenticeship in dying."

Trying to shove the king into his grave is his wife, Queen Marguerite, the role Riedel explains Sarandon will portray.

The production will mark another starry play on Broadway if it indeed comes to pass.

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