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Rhinoceros
Information for Rhinoceros at Almeida Theatre, West End (Play). In a sleepy French provincial town, a rhinoceros rampages across the market square. Another crushes someone's cat. A woman sounds the alarm: it is the townspeople themselves who are transforming into these raging beasts. As more and more of the citizens embrace their future as rhinos, just one man - the drunkard Berenger - refuses to transform. But why does he feel so out of step with everyone else? And what will his refusal to conform cost him? Eugene Ionesco's classic 1959 play is an uproarious absurdist farce - and a chilling examination of conformism, nationalism, fascism and fundamentalism that has been compared with Orwell's Animal Farm and Camus's The Plague. It considers the countless ways in which humans are content to adapt themselves to new and horrifying circumstances, and give in to poisonous ideologies. Alongside its piercing political insights, it is comic, thrillingly theatrical and deeply human, focusing on the unlikely hero of the everyman Berenger, and the possibility of resistance to what might seem inevitable.

Creatives/Company

Author: Eugene Ionesco
Producer: Almeida Theatre
Translation: Omar Elerian
Director(s): Omar Elerian, Amy Ball (CDG - casting)
Design: Ana Ines Jabares-Pita
Lighting: Jackie Shemesh
Sound: Elena Pena
 

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Rhinoceros

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Tuesday, 25th March 2025 to Saturday, 26th April 2025.
19:30. Mats 14:00

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Almeida Theatre

Almeida Theatre
Almeida Street
Islington
West End
Greater London
N1 1TA

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Rhinoceros at Almeida Theatre, West EndQTix Codes:
Listing: L1039253534
Production: T127514951
Event: S4762
Venue: V166

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