How many plays can you think of where the action involves a struggle for identity? A fair few, I would imagine. How many that involve a struggle to maintain identity in a world where everyone around you is turning into rhinoceroses? Just one: Rhinocéros by absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco. At once a tragedy and a rollicking comedy, Rhinocéros shows us the journey of one man’s transformation from an apathetic man with nothing to live for to a man who sees with startling clarity what it is he must do: resist the tyranny of the majority. A parable about fascism and France’s involvement with it, Rhinocéros is a play rich with both Ionesco’s brilliant sense of the stage and his facility with words.
What: Rhinocéros by Eugene Ionesco
Where: Power Center
When: Tonight – Saturday, October 13 7:30 PM
Note: The performance will be in the original French with English supertitles.
Rhino is watching.
