Rhinoceros
Remount
Performances
Sep 18, 2026 -
Oct 10, 2026
Cast & Personnel
Director
Cast
- Noel Bowers
- Sara Jo Dunstan
- Jovan Jackson
- Mara McGhee
- Jenna Morris Miller
- Karina Pal Montaño-Bowers
- George Parker
- Rebecca Randall
- Kyle Sturdivant
- Abraham Zeus Zapata
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Prop Design
Stage Manager
Booth Crew
Scenic Artist
The Play
A rhinoceros gallops and trumpets through a sleepy town, trampling all in its path as it goes. Soon there’s another, then another and another until it comes clear that the general population is opting out of humanity, to “move with the times.” A subversive comedy filled with biting wit and nightmarish anxiety, absurdist master Eugene Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros in reaction to the fascism, conformity, and senseless violence that surrounded him during WWII. Starring George Parker and Kyle Sturdivant, revisiting their roles from 2017’s smash-hit production. Directed by Tamarie Cooper.
The Playwright
EUGENE IONESCO was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way.
Ionesco is often considered a writer of the Theatre of the Absurd. This is a label originally given to him by Martin Esslin in his book of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov.
His works include Amédée (1954); Tueur sans gages (1959-The Killer); Le Rhinocéros (1959-Rhinoceros), Le Roi se meurt (1962-Exit the King), Le Piéton de l’air (1963-A Stroll in the Air); La Soif et la faim (1966- Thirst and Hunger); Jeux de massacre (1970-Killing Game); Macbett (1972), a retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth; and Ce formidable bordel (1973-A Hell of a Mess). Rhinoceros, a play about totalitarianism, remains Ionesco’s most popular work.
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