5/8/2023 0 Comments Rhinoceros eugène ionesco![]() At first everyone stares in shock at the occasional rampaging rhino, but once it becomes clear that these are (or were) their own friends and neighbors, well, surely they must have a good reason. In this case, of course, everybody is turning into rhinoceroses. (Meanwhile, Cutting Ball Theater is currently performing a revival production of Ionesco’s first play “The Bald Soprano” just a few blocks away at the EXIT on Taylor.) It’s also the plot of “Rhinoceros,” Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 classic of the avant-garde now playing at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater. It’s a familiar dynamic when an extremist movement starts to pervade and take over a society, and some of its hallmarks might have a ring of truth today. As more and more people become transformed into something unrecognizable, some extreme new movement that travels as a herd, others scramble to minimize and normalize what’s happening, rationalizing it away as an understandable and somehow sensible development rather than the end of civilization that it seems to be. ![]() ![]() The world is going mad, and no one seems to care. ![]()
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