Ionesco’s Rhinoceros for Durban theatre

TWO performances of Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros will be at the Courtyard Theatre at DUT campus on Friday, 25 and Saturday, 26 October.

This year Kwasha! Theatre gives its own contemporary interpretation of this thought-provoking tale. The company will combine different registers to bring this metaphor to life, exploring the tragic situation of human politics through the use of fantastical images. Rhinoceros (1939) is an emblematic work from the French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco, one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre and forefather of the Theatre of the Absurd.

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The play depicts an imaginary epidemic of ‘rhinoceritis’, a disease that frightens all the inhabitants of a city and soon transforms them into rhinoceroses. A metaphor for the rise of totalitarianism on the eve of the Second World War, it addresses the themes of conformism and resistance to political power. The performance on Friday at 10am is for school learners and pensioners and costs R30, with the show at 7pm on Friday and Saturday costing R80 for adults and R30 for learners and pensioners.

Tickets are available from Alliance Française de Durban at admin@durban.alliance.org.za or 031 312 9582.

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