Hunger and Thirst

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|writer = Eugène Ionesco[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-04-ca-12156-story.html "STAGE REVIEW : Ionesco's 'Hunger and Thirst' for a Heaven"] Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-06-15.

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|premiere = February 28, 1966{{cite book|author=Nancy Lane|title=Understanding Eugène Ionesco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8rZcAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-87249-981-2}} Page 151

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Hunger and Thirst (French original title La Soif et la faim{{cite book |title=Réalités |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdYnAQAAIAAJ |year=1967 |publisher=Société d'études et publications économiques |via=Google Books}}Issues 200-205 - Page 119) is one of Eugène Ionesco's late plays,{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/04/27/hunger-offers-a-bite-of-ionesco/ |title='Hunger' offers a bite of Ionesco |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=27 April 2006 |access-date=15 June 2017}}{{cite news |date=11 March 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/theater/arthur-storch-theater-director-is-dead-at-87.html |title=Arthur Storch, Stage Director, Dies at 87 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=15 June 2017}} premiering in Paris at Comédie-Française on February 28, 1966.{{cite book |title=Contemporary Authors: New revision series |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nukOtViT7AC |year=1997 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-1058-6 |page=239 |via=Google Books}}

The play has one act divided into four periods. In the play, Ionesco depicts religion as an expression of conformism and of the alienation of idealism to the establishment. It was first produced in an English translation in the United States in April, 1967, by the Yale Dramatic Association.