The Winter's Tale based on the play for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House in London. In 2015, author Jeanette Winterson published the book "The Gap of Time", a modern adaptation of "The Winter's Tale". In 2016, author E. K. Johnston published the book "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", a modern adaption of "The Winter's Tale". On 1 May 2016, BBC Radio 3's "Drama on 3" broadcast a production directed by David Hunter, with Danny Sapani as Leontes, Eve Best as Hermione, Shaun Dooley as Polixenes, Karl Johnson as Camillo, Susan Jameson as Paulina, Paul Copley as the Shepherd and Faye
Exit the King seems to me to be the most important thing we can do, since we’re all of us dying men who refuse to die. This play is an attempt at an apprenticeship in dying". Les Essif in "Empty Figure on an Empty Stage" points out that "Exit the King" comes closest of all Ionesco’s plays to the paradigm of absurdism established by Samuel Beckett. Though Beckett and Ionesco are commonly grouped together under the name "Theatre of the Absurd" because of their shared themes of alienation and the difficulty of communication, Beckett’s plays generally present a stripped down, minimalist tableau whereas