Wargrave Theatre is presenting a play unlike any that we have put on before and it is not to be missed! Rhinoceros is being performed from Wednesday 21st to Saturday 24th October starting at 7.30pm at our theatre at Woodclyffe Hall in Wargrave.
Written by Eugène Ionesco it belongs to the genre of Theatre of the Absurd, which grew after the Second World War, and illustrates how unthinking people can be easily manipulated,
It is first and foremost a very entertaining and comic play that can be enjoyed as just that, full of surprises and laugh-aloud happenings.
The cast, set builders, artists, technical teams, props makers, costume fitters, not to mention director, Jasper Holmes, have all been working their socks off to bring this unique play to our stage.
The first night on Wednesday was a roaring success, so we expect any remaining seats so be snapped up when the word gets round from those who have seen it.
If you have not yet bought your tickets then please do so now before it is too late.
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More about the play
Rhinoceros is Eugène Ionesco’s witty, unsettling and surprisingly funny modern classic. First performed in 1960, it grew out of the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, yet its questions feel more urgent than ever: why do people conform, and what does it take to stand apart from the crowd?
In a quiet French town, an extraordinary epidemic begins to spread. One by one, neighbours, colleagues and friends transform into rhinoceroses, abandoning their humanity as they join the stampede. As the herd grows, only one man resists, forced to confront what it means to remain an individual when everyone else chooses another path.
Comic, imaginative and thought-provoking, Rhinoceros combines sharp satire, lively ensemble performance and theatrical invention and shakes to the root our sense of ourselves as rational individuals, or individuals at all.
The cast of Rhinoceros
From left to right: Oliver Godfrey, Emmajane Hughes, Celia Reinbolt, Sara Beazley, Tanya Jessop, Graham Wheal, Joe Haynes, James Pennington, Graham Howe, Jenny Manning
Some of the characters in rehearsal!
