About This Show

It happens inexplicably: One by one, a man’s friends and neighbors turn into rhinoceroses, reducing the town to a perilous wasteland. In this brilliant restaging of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist allegory Rhinoceros, loneliness and horror consume the individual who resists a popular movement in which civilians succumb to the collective in its most monstrous, destructive form. Spare, physical, and haunting, celebrated French director Emmanuel Demarcy–Mota’s internationally acclaimed staging teases out the archetypal quality of this classic work, whose fierce indictment of 20th-century totalitarianism retains its sting amid today’s ideological climate

Show Details

Running Time: 1hr 45min (0 intermissions)
Dates: Opening Night: October 4, 2012 Final Performance: October 6, 2012

Theatermania Review

| | October 5, 2012
Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota delivers a highly theatrical version of Eugene Ionesco’s still-relevant absurdist classic at BAM.

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