Ionesco's absurdist classic, about a 300-year-old monarch unable to accept his own death, is tricked up with too much comedy shtick in the first half and becomes a little unrelenting in the second. But Geoffrey Rush's intense, way-over-the-top performance (a likely Tony winner) helps make the existential battle royal sizzle.
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