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The New Tenant (French: Le Nouveau Locataire) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1955. 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.