October 6, 2000
Contact: Peter Bailley

French play to be presented at Knox College

Inter-Europe Spectacles, a French theater troupe, will present the drama La Lecon by Eugene Ionesco, performed in French, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27, 2000 in Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The performance is free and open to the public.

La Lecon is about a teacher who punishes a student because she does not understand his mathematics lesson. Following the play, members of the cast will participate in a discussion with the audience.

Inter-Europe Spectacles, based in Paris, is a three-person troupe led by Claude Beauclair. The troupe also performed at Knox last year.

Ionesco' s works are classified among the drama of the absurd, which discovers surprises and contradictions within everyday life. His most widely-known work, Rhinoceros, was adapted for film in 1974. A native of Romania, Ionesco lived in France from 1938 until his death in 1984. In 1970 he was elected to the Academie Francaise, France's highest honor for artistic and cultural achievement.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,200 students from 45 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.

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Writer: Jen Maceyko