“The comic is the deepest understanding of the absurd, which is why I think it causes greater despair than the tragic. The comic is tragic, and the tragedy of man is a comedy.” - Eugene Ionesco

The Killing Game was written in 1970, and was first performed in Greece in 1971 by the “Art Theatre” under the direction of Karolos Koun. A sudden epidemic wipes out a city. Its residents face death one after another.

The Killing Game by the contemporary Eugene Ionesco strongly resembles the games that today's society plays with itself. People who die or live by chance, who do not know how to live, who do not know why they are dying. History repeats itself. Almost daily, we confront the absurd. Anger and despair when even science or art throws its hands up.

The Killing Game speaks about symbolic and real death, the one that, although we do everything to make it happen, we later wonder (and not everyone) about the causes.