Exit The King aka Le Roi se Meurt or Regele Moare by Eugene Ionesco, preceded by Rhinoceros http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/rhinoceros-by-eugen-ionesco.html 9 out of 10

 Exit The King aka Le Roi se Meurt or Regele Moare by Eugene Ionesco, preceded by Rhinoceros http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/rhinoceros-by-eugen-ionesco.html

9 out of 10

 

 

‘Pretty good show’ to use a cliché, the production that was aired on the National Television’s Cultural Channel last night was remarkable, although yours truly is not so much into Eugene Ionesco, perhaps because someone from these parts should be, seeing that this is one of the few men from this realm that has made a giant name for himself, Eugene Ionesco (this happens to be my name, and that of about three percent of the families here, only the playwright has changed the last u with an o, because he went on to live in France)

 

We have been graced with Victor Rebengiuc in the lead role of the King Berenger, a phenomenal actor that is now ninety years old, he is not just nec plus ultra as an artist, but he represents a role model, a man with a formidable moral standing: immediately after the 1989 Revolution (but you will hear again about that at the end, where I boast about my [tiny] role in its success, and the inclusion in Newsweek, once a major, worldwide known publication) the actor came to the Public Television with…toilet paper

He made an unforgettable speech, calling for the repugnant ruffians (not in those words, evidently) who have polluted the air for so long, to use the toilet paper (meaning he had eaten a lot of shit, which was so accurate, amusing, to the point and so effective as a symbolic, strong message) and get out of our lives, for they had been there for too long, doing the dirty, latrine work for the ‘Dear Son of the Nation aka loathsome Ceausescu, who could not have kept a nation of twenty two million then (maybe down to sixteen in the meantime, what with mass migration to the west, declining birth rates) under strict control

 

In so many ways, Exit the King could, maybe should be read as referring to tyranny, the King in the play is decrepit, the fact that he is said to be hundreds of years old is a hyperbole, but also stating that those cruel dictators stay there at the top forever – think of the Einstein quote ‘When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours…That's relativity’ – at least it feels that way, as Einstein said, and I have been there, believe me

Then there is the decrepitude, the endless list of things going wrong, however absurd they sound and appear – remember, Eugene Ionesco made a name that was internationally recognized, maybe not so much anymore, when people would associate The Absurd with eejits like Trump, Bolsanaro, Kim of North Korea and so many others…Eugene Ionesco was the founder of the Absurd Theater, knowing well what he is talking about, coming from here…

 

The King in the play Is Ceausescu and also the prototype, paradigm for despots, Big Brother, in their final days, when they exit, and everything around has turned to, well, shit, just as Victor Rebengiuc emphasized in his address, aired on national television, with his roll of toilet paper, which now that I mention it again I see it also showing the mountains of refuse, dejection, destruction that communism leaves behind.

 

In Exit the King, he is told by the First Wife, Marguerite aka illustrious, imperial Mariana Mihut, the real life spouse of Victor Rebengiuc, that everything in the kingdom is going to pot, and we also laugh when his majesty instructs, gives orders that are preposterous, he wants trees to grow around, the river to flow in huge drawings that will show his portrait, but even the humble, ordinary commands are not followed…

Which is a reflection of what happened in the real aka surreal and absurd world of Ceausescu – and for that matter, in other dictatorships, from China to Cuba, to Venezuela, but what is tragic, this is now happening in democracies, even the once greatest in the world- you have over seventy million Americans voting for their Berenger, The Orange Buffon, Modern Day Falstaff without the charm, only the pomposity and melodrama…you have vast territories where the King must Exit, but he will not

 

Even worse, you have one Exit, say in Brazil, where they have had a monstrous that seemed without equal, only to have another cave man come in, Lula, for all his admirable care for the Amazon (which is a huge, major plus) is one that favors other…Kings form the Berenger Family, such as the idiot, monstrous Maduro, Putin the Mass Killer…Lula said that ‘Zelenski of Ukraine (such a hero, real life superman, role model) is just as much to blame as Putin for the war’…are you for real, you idiot, how can equal the victim with the hangman?

And in this case, this Putin is the murderer that orders massacres, he has invaded another country, just because he thought he could take it within days, and invoked lies for his ‘special operation’…indeed, this Putin, and for me his buddy, Lula, and others like them represent the paradigm of King Berenger, if we laugh when seeing the play and think how deliciously absurd this is, what enticed me was how close it is to reality…

 

Yes, Royal Berenger wants trees to grow around him and that is nonsense, but what about ordering your villains to take a mini nuclear bomb all the way to London, so that you could torture and punish a foe, Alexander Litvinenko, former agent of the KGB, who was not just assassinated on foreign territory, but inflicted enormous pain, his organs would blow up slowly, and then others followed in the same pattern

This New Age Czar and Replica of Berenger has had Novichok, a military grade poison gas, used in Salisbury, then on the leader of the opposition, Alexey Navalny – the latter had been sentenced to abusive jail terms, the latest would have been imprisoned for as long as the czar with the Napoleon Complex would rule…Berenger in real life

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

From To The Heritage:

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’