A 2022 revival of this play in London’s Almeida Theatre was the last joint appearance of married actors Marcello Magni and Kathryn Hunter. A character in this play often consoles another by telling him that he could have had occupations like “head president, head king, or even head doctor.” Stage directions instruct the lighting to steadily increase throughout this play until a moment when fanfares play from the wings of its semicircular set. It’s not Waiting for Godot, but characters from this play echo “he will come” before a man enters dressed like a 19th-century painter. At the end of this play, that character makes “guttural sounds” like “heu, heu, gu you” before writing the word “ANGELFOOD” on a blackboard. In this play, the Emperor is among the dozens of invisible characters who arrive to see a speech by the Orator. For 10 points, name this Eugene Ionesco play about an elderly couple in a room full of furniture. ■END■
ANSWER: The Chairs [or Les Chaises]
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