Victimes Du Devoir

"Victims of Duty," or "Victimes du Devoir," is a one act play written in 1953, by French-Romanian playwright, Eugène Ionesco. An early work, it has not received the notoriety of his other works. The play is in the Theatre of the Absurd style, of which Ionesco is a pioneer.

Jaques Mauclair first produced the play in French in Paris, at the Théâtre du Quartier Latin, in February 1953. The first English performance was produced by Alan Simpson, in Ireland at the Pike Theatre, Dublin, in October, 1957.