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	SparkNotes: Rhinoceros: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
		The play's final irony is that Berenger becomes the true super-man, gathering his resources of will, built on a foundation of love for his fellow man, to take responsibility for humanity.
		Rhinoceros exposes the limitations of logic, and absurdity reigns as the dominating force in the universe.
		The rhinos become more beautiful as the play progresses until they overshadow the ugliness of humanity, and the audience is forced to recognize that an impressionable individual might have similarly perceived the swelling ranks of Nazis as superior.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/rhinoceros/themes.html (1316 words)

	Rhinoceros (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rhinoceros (original title Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in the late 1950s.
		The play belongs to the school of drama known as the theatre of the absurd.
		The play is often read as a response to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, philosophy, and morality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhinoceros_(play) (300 words)

	Vanguard Theatre Ensemble - "Rhinoceros" Reviews
		His warning in "Rhinoceros", given an often fascinating but sometimes too loose-limbed revival by the Vanguard Theatre Ensemble at Brea's Curtis Theatre, is as valid today as it was when it was written in the '50s.
		In the play's first scene, set in a mini-mall coffee shop, Berenger slouches scruffily in a chair, clutching a drink and is easily bullied into submission by his brash friend Jean (Michael P. Fahy).
		The play is set in contemporary American society, rather than the French provincial town of the original.
	www.vte.org /reviews/rhinorev.htm (1408 words)

	DVD Times - Rhinoceros
		Rhinoceros follows the AFT releases of The Homecoming, Butley, A Delicate Balance and The Man In The Glass Booth as part of the complete set of all fourteen titles in the American Film Theatre collection.
		Rhinoceros demonstrates one of the great advantages of the American Film Theatre’s ethos to preserve vital and edgy experimental theatre, preserving a play that would otherwise be rarely performed and capturing a magnificent original stage performance by Zero Mostel.
		The absurdist nature of the play will certainly not be to everyone’s taste and the wacky seventies treatment will be off-putting to many, but the film effectively puts across the themes of the play and is often very funny in a way that is rarely seen in cinema.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=12493 (1218 words)

	Rhinoceros to open at the ’Sco
		Rhinoceros is no typical production, and its significance is as apparent today as it was when in response to fascism in the 20th century.
		In Germany, the play was received as a tragedy, mirroring the spread of Nazism and the defeat of the human spirit.
		The rhinoceros in the play would have to be changed; it could not be misconstrued as a symbol for communism.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2004/4/30/arts/article6.html (435 words)

	Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The prior day’s appearance of a rhinoceros becomes the subject of controversy in the office.
		Boeuf, the wife of one of the workers, arrives to explain her husband’s absence, more rhinoceroses are seen outside.
		When Rhinoceros was first produced in Paris in 1960, Jean Louis Barrault directed the play and took the role of Berenger.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater2/Rhinoceros.htm (794 words)

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		Rhinoceros, a late 50s comedy/absurd play put on by the Principles of Drama Production class, under the direction of John Ball, will do just that.
		During Beranger and Jean’s very extended first interaction, a rhinoceros is first spotted, and a cat is trampled by one, and the narration of these events by diverse village characters helps to set the absurdist comic mood.
		Boeuf realizes that the rhinoceros is her husband, spends five minutes cooing and petting him through a trap door in the stage as arguments persist, then jumps on his back and rides away, commended as a very passionate woman by those who remain.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/0405/12/entertainment/rhinoceros.html (575 words)

	Rhinoceros
		Rhinoceros is usually interpreted as a response to the sudden upsurge of fascism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, and morality.
		Rhinoceros was originally produced on January 25, 1960, at the Odéon under the direction of Jean-Louis Barrault.
		It is considered by many to be Ionesco’s finest play, and has been identified by Martin Esslin as one of the masterpieces of the Theatre of the Absurd.
	www.theatrehistory.com /misc/rhinoceros.html (1361 words)

	Aisle Say (Seattle): RHINOCEROS
		Farrage, who admits to a long-time love affair with the play, shows a surprising facility with the dense text (using an English translation by the late French actor/writer Derek Prouse), and works his cast into a veritable existential frenzy, getting uniformly strong performances out of even the smallest roles.
		A full-grown rhinoceros stampedes down the narrow street, stomping a cat (real or imaginary we're never sure) to death in the process.
		She's in a state of panic: her husband has just turned into a rhinoceros before her very eyes, and conveniently followed her to the office for all to see.
	www.aislesay.com /WA-RHINOCEROS.html (637 words)

	Rhinoceros: Dramatic Criticism
		The problem of Berenger, in Ionesco's Rhinoceros, is the problem of the human person stranded and alone in what threatens to become a society of monsters.
		Rhinoceros is more than a study of conformism and mass hysteria; it is also about the betrayal of man by his own intellect: excessive respect for the laws of cause and effect, willingness to justify anything that can be proved to be inevitable.
		Rhinoceros, looking at a society free to make choices when a new antisocial force moves into a community...
	www.theatrehistory.com /misc/rhinoceros_002.html (550 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: Rhinoceros (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this version of Rhinoceros, the audience is handed a world in which people transform randomly into rhinos, then go stomping around their city looking for others to convert into pachyderms.
		The actors fly right through the play and keep up the intensity during the first half, but the play drags near the end and the humor from initial dialogues is replaced by more traditional conversation.
		Rhinoceros is a nice escape from the conservative stage play, and different enough to not be grouped along with other comedies.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/141/rhinoceros.html (445 words)

	Collegian • Features • Rhinoceros: A roaring ride
		Jean, played by Blake Ellis (right), goes through various stages of turning into a rhinoceros in the theatre department’s production of “Rhinocerous,” which runs through this week, while Berenger, played by Brandon Petrie wonders what is happening to his best friend.
		Brad Myers, director of the play, said Rhinoceros portrays the theater of the absurd, which suggests that there is no meaning in life, that people are born and will eventually die.
		Myers said the play resembles a unique and an unrealistic style that is beyond what the student actors have experienced.
	www.csufresno.edu /Collegian/archive/2004/12/6/features/rhino.shtml (820 words)

	www.haroldpinter.org - Plays
		The theme of the play is his attempt to keep a small flame of personal life burning through the inability to communicate with the two brothers who employ him.
		Instead of playing it straight, the actors have been encouraged to play for easy laughs, and since most of them do not do this very well, they give an overall impression of amateur theatricals dressed up at the last minute from the acting box in the old nursery.
		His latest play is not obscure in the least; it is excitingly original, and manages not only to be exceptionally funny but also to touch the heart.
	www.haroldpinter.org /plays/plays_caretaker.shtml (1545 words)

	Introduction
		Eugene Ionesco’s play, Rhinoceros, was written at the end of the 1950s, a decade that for many, especially the young, seemed drab and overwhelmingly conservative.
		But in this revolutionary play, London audiences on the cusp of a new and very different decade were presented with a radical vision of the world, and in Berenger a character with the spark of individuality and rebellion that was to become so characteristic of the 1960s.
		Ionesco’s play is often very funny but it is also frightening, made so by the subtle but ever present undercurrent of fear that in performance perhaps, just perhaps, a real trumpeting thudding angry beast is actually going to smash through the scenery and charge into the stalls.
	www.stagework.org /webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=6007&Session/@id=D_1hJcpt6ujArhpQ3dnNLr&Section/@id=1668 (419 words)

	ae.rhinoceros (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anyone who has seen or read Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" knows that while the actor who is playing the part of the protagonist, Berenger, may speak the most lines, he does not have the play's choicest part.
		The play, which is a landmark absurdist text from the late '50s, takes place in a small French town where the inhabitants start turning themselves into rhinoceroses.
		That should not keep anyone who is fond of this play away from this production which has so many things to recommend it, not the least of which is Alan Blumenfeld's bravura performance in that most choice of roles Jean.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /DB/issues/97/11.19/ae.rhinoceros.html (694 words)

	Theater of Derision Duo: Rhinoceros and View of the Dome
		Rhinoceros is a classic example of the Theater of the Absurd pioneered by its author, Eugene Ionesco who preferred the term Theater of Derision for this method of examining social institutions and attitudes through an exaggerated lens.
		Rebeck's play is worth seeing as an example of the work of a prolific living playwright who knows her way around other media--television and cinema--as well as the stage.
		Rhinoceros was Eugene Ionesco's dramatic response to the rise of Facism.
	www.curtainup.com /domerino.html (1020 words)

	'Rhinoceros' play off the wall, keeps audience thinking (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the play, the main character, Berenger (played by Jeff LePine), stands alone in his choice to remain human, while the rest of the cast succumbs to collectivism by transforming into the wild beasts.
		The idea of this play was a result of Ionesco’s experience during WWII, and the experiences in France, when much of the country adopted Hitler’s rule, with only a small number belonging to the French Resistance.
		“Rhinoceros” isn’t your average play and that’s part of the reason why it was chosen for this quarter.
	www.csubak.edu /runner/archive/Mar3/feature3.html (502 words)

	Art & Culture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Rhinoceros is one of those rare works of art that invites distrust and fear from the establishment because such works shamelessly point at the truth, which is often attacked as “untrue” and therefore irrelevant.
		The Rhinoceros, like other absurdist plays of the period, has certain quintessential traits such as dramatisation of disorder and chaos, a plot that is episodic, incongruous, and circular; characters that are typical and archetypical; and where communication through language is a futile game.
		Toufikul Islam Emon, the director of the play, explained that his idea is to present the surrealistic transformation of the characters as a logical outcome of their overly rational thought.
	www.weeklyholiday.net /120702/cult.html (2495 words)

	Stage Preview: Dog & Pony Show grows horns for Ionesco's absurdist comedy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ionesco clearly saw the rhinoceroses as symbols for Nazism and the town's plight as emblematic of capitulation to fascism.
		He doesn't want to assign one particular political meaning to the play, but counts off a few issues the cast considered during rehearsals -- the growth of the radical right; the meaning of patriotism in our society; they even toyed with the idea of the rhinoceroses as giant Hummers tooling through the streets.
		A shorter version of the play, Dog and Pony is billing it as "Rhino, an adventure through Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros.' " It should clock in at 90 minutes, rather than the 2 1/2 hours a full production would take.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05188/533869.stm (712 words)

	City Garage Theatre: Rhinoceros
		Their plays are usually done as some kind of clown show with human puppets blathering non sequiturs.
		The play’s hero is the aimless, wine-toting Berenger (Troy Dunn), whose greatest virtues are his lack of punctuality and purpose.
		Rhinoceros and plays of its era employed big ideas and bold gestures, often at the risk of alienating its audience; whereas the Theatre of the Anecdote seeks to tell small, personal stories, usually using direct address to make sure nothing is left misunderstood.
	www.citygarage.org /Ionesco3.html (2429 words)

	Rhinoceros
		A rhinoceros is one of several species of large mammal living in Africa and Asia.
		Rhinoceros horns, unlike those of other horned mammals, consist of densely compacted hair.
		Rhinoceros is also the name of a play by Eugène Ionesco; see Rhinoceros (play).
	www.fastload.org /rh/Rhinoceros.html (192 words)

	Rhinoceros Movies
		Rhinoceros horns are used in traditional Asian medicine, and for dagger handles in Yemen and Oman.
		None of the five rhinoceros species have secure futures: the White Rhino is perhaps the least endangered, the Javanese Rhino survives in only tiny numbers (estimated at 60 animals in 2002) and is one of the two or three most endangered large mammals anywhere in the world.
		Trade in rhinoceros parts is forbidden under the CITES agreements, but poaching is a severe threat to all rhinoceros species.
	www.junglewalk.com /video/Rhinoceros-movie.htm (587 words)

	Horns of Plenty / Theater Rhino gives Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros' a queer twist (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The controversy over these plays, especially "Corpus Christi," whose "gay Jesus" was denounced by the Catholic League and whose opening was almost canceled due to threats against the theater, attests to the taboo-breaking power of recasting with gay and lesbian characters.
		Although Theatre Rhinoceros is not named for Ionesco's classic (founder Allen Estes named the theater after the lavender rhinoceros that was a symbol of the early gay-rights movement in his native Boston), people continue to connect the two.
		Rhinoceros' queer "Rhinoceros" relocates the Theater of the Absurd around the corner from us in San Francisco's Mission, where its tragedy and comedy become our own.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/01/19/queer.DTL&type=performance (943 words)

	Thomas Merton - Rain and Grace by Anthony Padovano
		Eugene ionesco's own analysis of his play is that it indicts those who are always in a rush, who have no time, who have lost the need for solitude and have bcome prisoners of necessity.
		The play is an atempt to summon people to preserve their individuality, to honor their conscience and to resist the pressure to conform at all costs.
		The play alerts us, therefore, to the grace of gratuity, to the festivity of speech and relationship, to the celebration of life on its own terms.
	edge.edge.net /~dphillip/Padovano.html (4402 words)

	Susquehanna University - News Release
		Written by the Romanian-born French playwright in 1958, Rhinoceros is a tragic-comic farce generally considered a work of the Theatre of the Absurd.
		As Palermo explains, the play's subject is what Ionesco called "rhinoceritis," or a collective hysteria resulting from an intellectual and ideological conformism due to the abandonment of critical thinking.
		"In the play, the main character struggles to retain his individuality and humanity, while the entire human race seems to be turning into bellowing rhinoceroses," Palermo said.
	www.susqu.edu /news/releases/02-03/rhinoceros.htm (350 words)

	The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
		And "Rhinoceros" is a resounding statement about the insensitivity of bureaucracies that stiffly creativity and wipe out happiness.
		Yes his language is extraordinary and poetic, but more a playful, inverted, musical and choreographic act of creation than a furtherance of action.
		In Paul Mullins incisive staging of "Rhinoceros" here, Paul Niebanck’s Berenger is less a hero than an ambivalent contemporary man of Chaplinesque sadness, and in that double-edged performance, Ionesco’s belief in the oneness of tragedy and comedy is hauntingly brought to life.
	www.njshakespeare.org /past/2000/rhino_critical.html (792 words)

	The Ashden Directory
		At the Royal Court, Eugène Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros demands a herd of rampaging rhinoceroses, while War Horse, Nick Stafford's adaptation for the National Theatre of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, has a horse at its emotional centre.
		Actor Zawe Ashton saw an image from the play reflected in the rhino’s physiognomy: ‘a huge, glazed eye, lost in the armour of the body’, as if a human being were trapped inside.
		Rhinoceros is at the Royal Court until 15 December.
	www.ashdendirectory.org.uk /featuresView.asp?pageIdentifier=20071030_12105959&view= (1601 words)

	Rhinoceros, A Review
		Rhinoceros was first produced in Paris at the Odeon January 25th, 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre April 28th, 1960.
		Dehumanization/depersonalization: one cannot tell the rhinoceros apart except to seperate one-horned and two horned rhinoceroses, there is no individuality, just as there is little individuality when one puts on a uniform and marches in formation in an army.
		Ionesco wrote his first play, a short play named The Bald Soprano, when he was trying to learn English and was impressed by the cliches.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/ionescorhbk.htm (1041 words)

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