Rhinoceros
Fri, Apr 25
|Kalamazoo
A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order.
Time & Location
Apr 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Kalamazoo, 1030 Portage Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49001, USA
About The Event
At the play’s outset, Jean and Bérenger sit at a provincial café when a solitary rhinoceros runs by them. The next day, townspeople are talking about the strange and sudden proliferation of rhinoceroses and about the metamorphosis of fellow citizens into these creatures. When his friend Jean is transformed, Bérenger attempts to warn everyone, but he appears to be the sole remaining human.
Eugene Ionesco
(born Nov. 26, 1909, Slatina, Rom.died March 28, 1994, Paris, France) was a Romanian-born French playwright. He studied in Bucharest and Paris, where he lived from 1945. His first one-act antiplay, The Bald Soprano (1950), inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd. He followed it with other one-act plays in which illogical events create an atmosphere both comic and grotesque, including The Lesson (1951), The Chairs (1952), and The New Tenant (1955). His most popular full-length play, Rhinoceros…