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Rhinoceros written in blue and repeated many times.
Rhinoceros written in blue and repeated many times.

Rhinoceros

By Eugène Ionesco, Translated and Directed by Omar Elerian

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Tue 25 Mar - Sat 26 Apr 2025

Who knows what is good and what is evil? You’re only concerned with yourself. That’s the truth. But you’ll never really become a rhinoceros… you haven’t got the chops!

A provincial town in France.

Jean meets his friend Berenger for a drink, but things take an unexpected turn when a rhinoceros charges through the town square. After all, there are no rhinoceroses in France, right?

Suddenly, one by one the townspeople are transforming into the thing they first feared. An epidemic has taken hold and rhinoceritis is spreading like wildfire, until there are almost no human beings left.

Returning to the Almeida following his ★★★★★ (The Telegraph) production of The Chairs, Omar Elerian directs and translates Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist satire about resisting conformity and holding onto what’s left of our humanity as we resist the rumbling power of the herd.

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Creative Team

Eugène Ionesco

Writer

Omar Elerian

Translator and Director

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