Exit the King at American Players Theatre

Recently revived on Broadway (2009) this absurdist exploration of ego and mortality is set in the crumbling throne-room of a palace in an unnamed country where King Berenger the First has only the duration of the play to live. Once he ruled an immense empire, but now his kingdom has shrunk to the confines of his garden wall. His present and former Queens must help him face the final, inevitable truth of life: Death.

Authors

• Eugene Ionesco