Eugène Ionesco
Director Diane Paulus’s high-spirited A.R.T. adaptation of Ionesco’s anti-conformist play sometimes overplays its comic business, but John Turturro’s scruffy, strident, anguished Berenger gives the production its necessary mix of horror, humor, and desperate resistance.
Arlekin’s high-energy adaptation underscores absurdism’s resonance in an age of conflict.
“Rhinoceros” is a powerful wake-up call that, whether we like it nor not, we are writhing on the horns of a dilemma.
At the very least, Ionesco’s drama about the unreality of the world should produce shudders as well as chuckles.
In Ionesco’s play, society no longer makes sense — even to itself.
With conformity on the march, Ionesco’s Rhinoceros remains as timely as ever.
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