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"Does ‘Rhinoceros’ Still Have Its Charge?
Diane Paulus’s new staging at American Repertory Theater—starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany—promises a non-literal approach to Ionesco’s allegory about fascism.
'When I was a young man in Romania…I remember how everyone around me converted to fascism, till it seemed to me that I was the only one left in the world,' the playwright Eugène Ionesco told an interviewer in 1961. 'It seemed to me at the time that although I was the most insignificant of creatures, a terrible responsibility had befallen me, and that, somehow, I would have to do something, or rather everything. Isn’t this the plight and privilege of the modern hero?'
He dramatized the plight of the 'modern hero'—or the 'hero in spite of himself,' to borrow Ionesco’s own phrase—in his 1959 play *Rhinoceros*. Its lead, Bérenger—a recurring protagonist who also appears in Ionesco’s *The Killer* and *Exit the King*—is hardly a conventional hero. Habitually disheveled, prone to drinking, and vaguely disengaged from his own life, Bérenger initially seems the least likely person to resist anything. Yet when those around him succumb one by one to an epidemic of 'rhinoceritis,' it is this rumpled Everyman who retains his human form.
Born of the playwright’s experience watching political fanaticism spread across Europe, it is probably Ionesco’s most well known play, but it has been infrequently mounted in the U.S. After premiering in France in 1960 and reaching Broadway the following year, it has appeared on American stages only sporadically. This year, however, the play has enjoyed an unusual resurgence, with a March production at Yale Repertory Theatre, and, beginning this month, at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts (it runs Aug. 21-Sept. 27). Directed by Diane Paulus and starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany, the ART production arrives at a moment when public life feels increasingly defined by ideological polarization, competing realities, technological upheaval, and anxieties about what it means to remain fully human."
https://www.americantheatre.org/2026/08/11/does-rhinoceros-still-have-its-charge/
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"Does ‘Rhinoceros’ Still Have Its Charge?
Diane Paulus’s new staging at American Repertory Theater—starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany—promises a non-literal approach to Ionesco’s allegory about fascism.
'When I was a young man in Romania…I remember how everyone around me converted to fascism, till it seemed to me that I was the only one left in the world,' the playwright Eugène Ionesco told an interviewer in 1961. 'It seemed to me at the time that although I was the most insignificant of creatures, a terrible responsibility had befallen me, and that, somehow, I would have to do something, or rather everything. Isn’t this the plight and privilege of the modern hero?'
He dramatized the plight of the 'modern hero'—or the 'hero in spite of himself,' to borrow Ionesco’s own phrase—in his 1959 play *Rhinoceros*. Its lead, Bérenger—a recurring protagonist who also appears in Ionesco’s *The Killer* and *Exit the King*—is hardly a conventional hero. Habitually disheveled, prone to drinking, and vaguely disengaged from his own life, Bérenger initially seems the least likely person to resist anything. Yet when those around him succumb one by one to an epidemic of 'rhinoceritis,' it is this rumpled Everyman who retains his human form.
Born of the playwright’s experience watching political fanaticism spread across Europe, it is probably Ionesco’s most well known play, but it has been infrequently mounted in the U.S. After premiering in France in 1960 and reaching Broadway the following year, it has appeared on American stages only sporadically. This year, however, the play has enjoyed an unusual resurgence, with a March production at Yale Repertory Theatre, and, beginning this month, at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts (it runs Aug. 21-Sept. 27). Directed by Diane Paulus and starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany, the ART production arrives at a moment when public life feels increasingly defined by ideological polarization, competing realities, technological upheaval, and anxieties about what it means to remain fully human."
https://www.americantheatre.org/2026/08/11/does-rhinoceros-still-have-its-charge/
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📖 EUGÈNE IONESCO
Rhinocéros
Folio/Gallimard#ionesco #eugeneionesco #rhinoceros🦏 #theatre #lecturedujour
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📖 EUGÈNE IONESCO
Rhinocéros
Folio/Gallimard#ionesco #eugeneionesco #rhinoceros🦏 #theatre #lecturedujour
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@LillyHerself/115890085028975685
Klar, eine mit Harpunen bewaffnete Walroßarmee hätte gegen die Hightech Invasoren keine Chance sich zu verteidigen. Es sind ikonische Bilder unserer Zeit. Vielleicht helfen sie den Amerikanern die Rhinozerosse in ihren Land zu erkennen. Nur dann können sie vertrieben werden.
Schönen Gruß an #Ionesco! -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@LillyHerself/115890085028975685
Klar, eine mit Harpunen bewaffnete Walroßarmee hätte gegen die Hightech Invasoren keine Chance sich zu verteidigen. Es sind ikonische Bilder unserer Zeit. Vielleicht helfen sie den Amerikanern die Rhinozerosse in ihren Land zu erkennen. Nur dann können sie vertrieben werden.
Schönen Gruß an #Ionesco! -
RHINOCEROS 2
ACT ONE, SCENE ONE
The RHINOCEROS leans back in an armchair and peers over his newspaper at LAST HUMAN BEING ON EARTH.
RHINOCEROS
I'm not the rhinoceros, you are.THE END
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RHINOCEROS 2
ACT ONE, SCENE ONE
The RHINOCEROS leans back in an armchair and peers over his newspaper at LAST HUMAN BEING ON EARTH.
RHINOCEROS
I'm not the rhinoceros, you are.THE END
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rhinoceros / jan lenica. 1965
A animated version of Ionesco’s tale.
This movie is part of the collection Academic Film Archive of North AmericaProducer: Jan Lenica
Sponsor: Lee Creighton#academicFilmArchiveOfNorthAmerica #animatedFilm #animatedMovie #art #arte #cinema #eugeneIonesco #eugenDimitriIonescu #film #ionesco #janLenica #leeCreighton #movie
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Suite 1976 https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/113617827430614080
(2/14)
- Argentine : coup d’État des généraux argentins -> dictature junte militaire de Jorge Videla (cf 1985) = 'années de plomb' (cf 1983 2025) avec réemploi École mécanique de l’armée en centre de tortures/assassinats par Emilio Eduardo Massera/Roberto Eduardo Viola/capitaine de corvette Alfredo Astiz généraux Reynaldo Bignone/Evaristo Basteiro +...#livres Rhinocéros d'Eugène #Ionesco
#year1976 #anthropocene #climat #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
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Suite 1976 https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/113617827430614080
(2/13)
- Argentine : coup d’État des généraux argentins -> dictature junte militaire de Jorge Videla (cf 1985) = 'années de plomb' (cf 1983 2025) avec réemploi École mécanique de l’armée en centre de tortures/assassinats par Emilio Eduardo Massera/Roberto Eduardo Viola/capitaine de corvette Alfredo Astiz généraux Reynaldo Bignone/Evaristo Basteiro +...#livres Rhinocéros d'Eugène #Ionesco
#year1976 #anthropocene #climat #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
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One of the books that had profoundly shaped my worldview as a teenager was "#Rhinocéros" by Eugène #Ionesco.
Our protagonist Bérenger watches in horror as people around him – fellow citizens, neighbors, firefighters, colleagues, friends, and even lover – turn into violent rhinoceroses, hellbent on rampant destruction. First slowly, then at an increasingly intense clip.
You can read it here:
• in English: https://archive.org/details/rhinocerosplayin00ione/
• en Français: https://archive.org/details/rhinoceros0000euge/ -
One of the books that had profoundly shaped my worldview as a teenager was "#Rhinocéros" by Eugène #Ionesco.
Our protagonist Bérenger watches in horror as people around him – fellow citizens, neighbors, firefighters, colleagues, friends, and even lover – turn into violent rhinoceroses, hellbent on rampant destruction. First slowly, then at an increasingly intense clip.
You can read it here:
• in English: https://archive.org/details/rhinocerosplayin00ione/
• en Français: https://archive.org/details/rhinoceros0000euge/ -
back in the 20th century we thought that #Ionesco's play #Rhinoceros was about the past. Turns out it was about the future, around 2024/25. I spot nascent horns growing on multiple noses ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play) #trumpocalypse
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back in the 20th century we thought that #Ionesco's play #Rhinoceros was about the past. Turns out it was about the future, around 2024/25. I spot nascent horns growing on multiple noses ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play) #trumpocalypse
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DIE KAHLE SÄNGERIN
Anti-Stück VON Eugène Ionesco
am Deutschen Theater Berlin
REGIE #AnitaVulesica
Das war herrlich. Nichts entspannt das Gehirn so gut wie gepflegter Nonsens. Danach ist man wie neu... 😇
#Theater #DeutschesTheater #Berlin #Ionesco #KahleSängerin -
Auf der Terrasse des Deutschen Theaters sitzen bei einem Glas Wein den Programmzettel zu DIE KAHLE SÄNGERIN studieren und sich auf Absurdes Theater freuen... Schöööön...
Anti-Stück von Eugène Ionesco - das Gründungsdokument des Absurden Theaters
#Ionesco #AbsurdesTheater #DT #DeutschesTheater #Berlin #Theater #Schauspiel #KahleSängerin -
Every time those #MAGA people start howling menacingly about RINOs (#republicans in name only), they're UNWITTINGLY evoking #Ionesco's play RHINOCEROS, in which normal human beings inexplicably turn into rhinoceroses.
The play, a comedy, satirized the speed with which seemingly moderate people became fascists overnight during the 1930s in Europe.
What we are witnessing in the United States is 40% of the House of Representatives turning into rhinoceroses.
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Every time those #MAGA people start howling menacingly about RINOs (#republicans in name only), they're UNWITTINGLY evoking #Ionesco's play RHINOCEROS, in which normal human beings inexplicably turn into rhinoceroses.
The play, a comedy, satirized the speed with which seemingly moderate people became fascists overnight during the 1930s in Europe.
What we are witnessing in the United States is 40% of the House of Representatives turning into rhinoceroses.
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#Bavarian #Elections. New Nazis on the rise? It's the normal reaction to the fears induced by #climatechange, I guess. Horrible. Here's a movie/play you should watch and read – I've been doing so for twenty years, it's exactly how it feels to watch people fall to the populists and meaninglessness.
#ionesco #rhinos #rhinoceros.
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#feilnerism: #Ökofaschisten sind Menschen, die vom Klimakollaps profitieren und anderen absprechen, Recht zu haben. Dafür ignorieren sie die Wissenschaft auf skrupellose, intrigante und lügnerisch-verleumderische Weise. Beispiele: #Blume, #Wissing #Aiwanger u.v.m.
Ökofaschisten gewinnen Anhänger mit dem Versprechen, man müsse nix ändern und fangen wie Rattenfänger die kindlichen Gemüter ein, die wie ein Frosch im heißen Wasser die Veränderungen nicht bemerken. #ionesco #rhinos #klimakollaps -
I used to like a lot of things about Ionesco's "The Rhinoceros" but now what I mostly like about it is that it only lasts a couple hours as opposed to endless years of horror and social isolation. #covid #CovidIsNotOver #Ionesco
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I used to like a lot of things about Ionesco's "The Rhinoceros" but now what I mostly like about it is that it only lasts a couple hours as opposed to endless years of horror and social isolation. #covid #CovidIsNotOver #Ionesco
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Ok so there's a film adaptation of #Ionesco's #Rhinoceros with Gene Wilder. And it's available now on Amazon Prime:
