Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros (Rhinocéros) Author: Eugène Ionesco
First Performance: 1959, Paris
Published: 1959
First English Translation: 1960
Genre: Drama in 3 acts; French prose
Setting: Small provincial French town, mid-20th c.
Cast: 11m, 6f, extras
Bérenger, a scruffy Chaplinesque figure, meets his fastidious friend Jean in a café. While Bérenger drinks to escape from the tedium of his daily routine, a rhinoceros suddenly thunders past in the street. The following day at work, Bérenger and Daisy, a fellow worker whom he fancies, discuss the damage wrought by the rhinoceros, but the boss insists that work must go on as normal. A woman arrives late at work, pursued by her husband who is transformed into a rhinoceros. The wife leaps on his back and rides off. When Bérenger visits Jean, he...
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