
Theatre· Paris
Macbett
*Macbett* is a 1972 play by Eugène Ionesco, a French-Romanian playwright of the Theatre of the Absurd. It is a darkly comic, absurdist rewriting of Shakespeare's *Macbeth*, following the title character as he murders King Duncan and seizes the throne, only to repeat the original play's violent cycle—while Ionesco satirizes its themes of ambition, tyranny, and political violence.