Exit the King is by a writer.
Eugene Ionesco -LRB- born Eugen Ionescu , -LSB- e.uˈdʒen joˈnesku -RSB- ; 26 November 1909 -- 28 March 1994 -RRB- was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French , and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre .. French. France. Romanian-French. Romanians in France. French Avant-garde theatre. French avant-garde theatre#Avant-garde. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations , Ionesco 's plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way .