The New Tenant (French: Le Nouveau Locataire) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1953, [2] translated by Donald Watson in 1956,[3] It premiered in 1955 in Lilla Teatern in Helsinki, Finland, directed by Vivica Bandler.
[4] The central image is common to many Ionesco plays: something accumulates on stage and overwhelms the characters.
In this case its furniture.
The main characters are a gentleman, a caretaker, and two movers.
The caretaker talks as the gentleman, the "new tenant" of the title, directs the two movers who continuously bring in furniture.