Exit the King review " Alun Armstrong absurdly good in Ionesco's drama
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathAlun Armstrong rules in Ionesco's absurdist dramaIonesco's Exit the King was first performed in 1962, and the theatre of the absurd cannot boast any more provocatively banal opening line than the complaint about broken down central heating that kicks off the action " or lack of it. A guard sits on the ground, his scarlet uniform covered in dust, slumped against a monumental concrete …