The lawyer Chavel trades his death sentence with somebody else for all his possessions during the WO II in a prison camp. Chavel makes out a will for Janvier, so the family gets whatever he leaves behind.
After the war is over Chavel, now named Charlot, is free again and can’t help but go by Brinac, the house he, together with all his other belongings and money, gave away. He is welcomed by Janvier’s sister and she gives him a place to stay in return for doing little jobs, one of them being, keeping an eye out for Chavel, because she is sure he will return to his old grounds someday. So Chavel is living in “his” house under false pretences, keeping an eye out for himself.
Time goes by and one day it happens: Chavel is on the doorstep of Brinac. How is that possible?
this is a preview of the tenth man — graham greene
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A man on his own in a little selfmade tin house in the middle of nowhere. He is content with his life far away from people and therefore trouble. He has his own daily schedule of shuffling the sand (that every night by wind clusters against his house) away from his door, his long walk in circles and doing nothing. Then a woman appears on his doorstep. He is, as expected, not happy with this event. And if that is not enough, after a little time, also his three “neighbours” from the other tin houses around there somewhere are coming regurarly to drink a cup of tea with him and, of course, the lady. When he finally has coped with this new lifestyle, that he kind of got to like even, yet another situation drags him somewhere he doesn’t want to go and be.
this is a preview of three to see the king — magnus mills
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Seven highly intelligent teenagers are being treated in a mental institution each for their own psychological problems. They are a group, some are friends, others are not. But they all have one thing in common: their secret of what happened in the night of November 8th 1977.
Innes is the one that only after 27 years gets to know the horrible truth of what exactly happened on that day when the group was on a camping trip.
this is a preview of the reunion — sue walker
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This is what Ionesco himself says about his play (translated):
It’s not even a satire: it’s the fairly objective description of a process of inflammation, of a development of a totalitarianism that’s spreading, that propagates, captures, that’s changing a world. And this world will be totally changed because after all it’s about totalitarianism.
this is a preview of rhinoceros — eugène ionesco
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