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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. Tinderbox Theatre Company are thrilled to premiere Patrick J O Reilly's new adaptation Rhino. An intriguing fusion of Sci-Fi and Dark Comedy, alive somewhere between online gaming and virtual reality: RHINO offers a modern reinterpretation of Eugene Ionesco's renowned play 'Rhinoceros'. In an online gaming world resembling a quaint French village, a rampaging rhinoceros strikes terror. The chaos escalates when the virtual villagers begin sprouting horns and transforming into rhinos themselves. Amidst this turmoil, Berenger emerges as an unlikely hero. As the irresistible allure of the stampede intensifies, a crucial question arises: Can Berenger resist the Rhino's magnetic pull, or will he succumb to conformity?| 18 Oct 23 to 28 Oct 23 | Lyric Theatre Belfast Performance Details => Venue archive |
