Rhinoceros

Cyprus : Rhinoceros

The unexpected appearance of a furious rhinoceros among the crowd disrupts the tranquility of a provincial French town and signals the beginning of a paradoxical epidemic: men are transformed into rhinoceroses! An absurd phenomenon prevails that carries away the indecisive people who, in order to become assimilated to their social surroundings, elbow aside their human characteristics and let free their animal instincts. In this way, a social transformation occurs, which establishes the law of the jungle in the town. The only person that resists the vortex of “rhinoceritis” is Berenger, an almost failed, peaceable, and marginalised hero who will eventually become an exemplar of altruism and resistance to homogeneity.

The play by Ionesko, beyond its surrealistic dialogues and comic features, actually criticises the uncritical and massive conversion of the countries to Nazism, as well as every mechanism of assimilation and totalitarianism. This political allegory remains significantly opportune, as it functions as a cry of protest against the political systems that muzzle human freedom and eventually turn people into fanatic beasts and thick-skinned rhinoceros.

Translation: Erricos Belies, Direction: Christos Sopahas
Set-Costume design: Stefanos Athienitis, Music: Andreas Moustoukis
Assistant to the Director: Valentinos Kokkinos

Cast: Andreas Tsouris, Philippos Sofianos, Neoklis Neokleous, Margarita Zachariou, Prokopis Agathoklleous, Anna Giagiozi, Valentinos Kokkinos

Ticket prices
€12
€6 (pensioners, students, soldiers, unemployed, pupils – with the demonstration of the appropriate document)

When

Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
Time: Starts at 20:30

Where

Andrea Drousioti 19
Platia Iroon
Limassol, Limassol 3603, Cyprus
Email:
Phone: 77777745

Cost

€12 / €6

Contact

THOC
Email:
Phone: 77772717

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