Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It (French: Amédée ou comment s'en débarrasser) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1954 based on his earlier short story entitled "Oriflamme".
Amédée and Madeleine, the two main characters, are grotesque and dehumanized as they consider their options for disposing of the corpse.
The corpse is causing mushrooms to sprout all over the apartment and is apparently arousing suspicion among the neighbours.
At the end of the play, Amédée attempts to drag the corpse away to dump it in the river.
For example, the couple's interaction is similar in many ways to the interaction between the Old Man and the Old Woman in The Chairs; the conflicting background story of the corpse parallels the old couple's conflicting stories about their children.