Rhinocéros [videorecording] / Eugène Ionesco ; coproduction La Comédie de Reims, Centre dramatique national, La Compagnie des Indes, France 4, France 3 ; mise en scène Emmanuel DeMarcy-Mota.
Hughes Quester, Serge Maggiani, Valérie Dashwood, Charles-Roger Bour, Pascal Vuillemot, Cyril Anrep, Jauris Casanova, Céline Carrère, Ana das Chagas, Sandra Faure, Gaëlle Guillou, Stéphane Krähenbühl, Olivier Le Borgne, Gérald Maillet. Originally produced in 1984. "Le Théâtre de la Ville, Paris créé au Théâtre de la Ville le 20 septembre 2004." Special feature: Recontre avec Eugène Ionesco (32 min.) / un film de Damian Pettigrew ; produit par Olivier Gal.
Summary:
Rhinoceros depicts the struggle of one man to maintain his identity and integrity alone in a world where all others have succumbed to the beauty of brute force. "Berenger, an average citizen in a nameless French city, is not interested in the fact that rhinoceros are on the loose. This causes him to quarrel with his friend Jean and his attractive secretary Daisy outside a grocer's shop. The argument continues with many local[s] joining in. These include the grocer and his wife, a waitress and a housewife, a cafe owner, an old gentleman, a waitress and a logician. The group trys to reason the events that are happening around them. The results are understandably chaotic. In the local government office where Berenger works he witnesses that the staff are gradually turning into rhinoceros. Eventually Berenger finds out that Daisy and he are the only human beings left.. To his surprise Daisy then too turns into a rhinoceros. Berenger concludes he will then fight against all the rhinoceros"-- http://freespace.virgin.net/numb.world/rhino.synopsis.htm (as viewed on 03/19/2010).
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