Jacques ou la Soumission

Jacques ou la Soumission is a one-act play by Eugène Ionesco in which Jacques resists the expectations and rituals imposed by his family. As the pressure to conform and marry Roberte increases, everyday conventions dissolve into absurd logic, wordplay and estrangement. Ionesco wrote the play in 1950; it was first performed at the Théâtre de la Huchette in Paris in 1955.