![]() ![]() Clothing Damage: Jean damages Berenger's jacket when he starts turning into a rhino.Celebrity Paradox: Apparently Ionesco exists in the world of the play, too.Cassandra Truth: The people at Berenger's workplace don't believe in the rhinoceroses until they start becoming ones themselves, except for Daisy, who also had trouble getting people to believe her.Catapult Nightmare: Berenger violently wakes from a nightmare about rhinos in Act III.True to the conformists the play actually satirises, the people feel no actual pain, other than a hoarse voice they don't notice, when transforming. Body Horror: All the transformations into a rhinoceros are generally depicted as rather graphic, especially Jean, who is almost shown transforming into a rhinoceros in painstaking detail: each time he re-emerges from the bathroom his face and skin have morphed more and more.Bittersweet Ending: Berenger is the last human in town by the end, but he resolves not to conform to this mass movement.Betty and Veronica: Berenger (Betty) and Dudard (Veronica) to Daisy (Archie).Nobody knows if the changes are reversible or not. Animorphism: Everyone in the town is literally turning into rhinoceroses.He doesn't even like the taste of alcohol, he just drinks so he doesn't become self-conscious. Boeuf), Dribble (Dudard) and Shiftor (Botard). Aerith and Bob: The 1961 production mixes normal names such as Berenger, John and Daisy with names like Mr.Daisy rejects the proposition and ends up joining the rhinoceroses. Adam and Eve Plot: Berenger proposes Daisy to rebuild the human race with their children as they are the only humans left.A newer production in 2007 at the Royal Court Theatre starred Benedict Cumberbatch as Berenger. A 1974 film was also released, with Gene Wilder in the Berenger role as "Stanley", Mostel reprising the Jean role as "John", and Karen Black as Daisy. The play is symbolic of the upsurge of Fascism and Nazism that preceded the events of World War II.Ī production was put on in 1961, starring Eli Wallach as Berenger, Wallach's wife Anne Jackson as Daisy, and Zero Mostel as Berenger's friend Jean. Berenger, who watches in horror as his friends suddenly start to become rhinoceroses. It tells the story of one man, an alcoholic named M. ![]() Rhinoceros is a 1959 absurdist play written by Eugène Ionesco.
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