As Far As Impossible, Edinburgh International Festival.Summer on Stage 2023, Juniors Performance Course: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.Summer on Stage 2023, Minis Performance Course: Devised.
Summer on Stage 2023, Seniors Performance Course: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.Magic and Theatre Workshop (ages 13-18).Young Ensemble Training Course (ages 18-25).60+ Playwrights Conversations Summer Term.Original image by Christophe Cotichelli Cast and Credits 'an elegant production, as entertaining as it is powerful' This production is presented in a new version by leading Scottish playwright, Zinnie Harris, directed by the celebrated founder of Istanbul’s DOT Theatre, Murat Daltaban.Ī co-production between Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and the Edinburgh International Festival in association with DOT Theatre, Istanbul It considers the countless ways in which humans are content to adapt themselves to new and horrifying circumstances, and give in to poisonous ideologies.Īlongside 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. But why does he feel so out of step with everyone else? And what will his refusal to conform cost him?Įugène 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. As more and more of the citizens embrace their future as rhinos, just one man – the drunkard Berenger – refuses to transform. Another crushes someone’s cat.Ī woman sounds the alarm: it is the townspeople themselves who are transforming into these raging beasts. In a sleepy French provincial town, a rhinoceros rampages across the market square. "I suppose it goes to show that these days you never know what might run up your street."
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