Hunger and Thirst

For the Typhoon album, see Hunger and Thirst (album).

Hunger and Thirst (French original title La Soif et la faim^[3]) is one of Eugène Ionesco's late plays,^[4][5] premiering in Paris at Comédie-Française on February 28, 1966.^[6]

Hunger and Thirst
Written by	Eugène Ionesco[1]
Date premiered	February 28, 1966[2]
Place premiered	Comédie-Française
Original language	French

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.