"Rhinoceros" resonates not because it's about fascism but because it's about regular people figuring out how to cope with a situation in which the perceived rules no longer apply.
The last time Tamarie Cooper, Catastrophic Theatre’s associate director, directed Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, it was 2003, and it was for another company. Fourteen years on, she’s getting ready to open the show this week, and it’s a whole different experience.