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The New Tenant (French: Le Nouveau Locataire) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1953, translated by Donald Watson in 1956, It premiered in 1955 in Lilla Teatern in Helsinki, Finland, directed by Vivica Bandler.

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.

References

1. Charles Derry (21 December 2009). Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century. McFarland. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-0-7864-5695-6.
2. Gale Research Company (2010). Twentieth-century Literary Criticism. Gale Research Company. ISBN 978-1-4144-3873-3.Page 190
3. Sorrel Kerbel (23 November 2004). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. pp. 662–. ISBN 978-1-135-45606-1.
4. Christopher B. Balme; Berenika Szymanski-Düll (5 June 2017). Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War. Springer. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-3-319-48084-8.

• 1955 plays
• French plays
• Theatre of the Absurd