Rhinoceros
From: Thursday, 14th February 2013
To: Saturday, 16 February 2013
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Synopsis
An absurd classic about a French town where the in inhabitants start turning into rampaging rhinos. Only one man seems to know what's happening. This fable draws parallels with the rise of fascism in middle of the 20th century.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 15 February 2013
The Barbican has launched a fascinating surrealist season, Dancing around Duchamp, which traces the influence of Marcel Duchamp (think urinal as an art exhibit) in dance, music and theatre, with Alfred Jarry and Eugène Ionesco prominent in the latter category.
Ionesco's Rhinoceros (1959) is a masterpiece of allegorical abstraction in which a stage full of office workers are transformed into looming rhinos while the hero Bérenger - a role played at the Royal Court first by Laurence Olivier, more recently by Benedict Cumberbatch - stands stubbornly alone, like King Canute, or Ibsen's Dr Stockmann.
This visiting production from the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and designed by Yves Collet, is the first I have seen to express the dream-like, physical convulsion of the play, with a truly sinister apparition of grey/green horny mammals peering at ...
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Eugene Ionesco (Author)
Theatre de la Ville (Company)
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