The popular plays of the Franco-Romanian author Eugène Ionesco (1912-1994) protested the dehumanizing effects of modern civilization and depicted the despair of the individual who vainly seeks meaning for his or her existence. He has been called t...

A Madstone Films presentation of a Directors Program production. (International sales: ICM, Los Angeles.) Produced by Tom Gruenberg, Eva Kolodner. Executive producer, Chip Seelig. Co-producers. Daniel Hill, Jessica Levin. Directed, written by Aaron Woodley. Camera (Deluxe color), David Greene: editors, Robert Crossman,...

SBlI ADVICE A designer discusses the challenges of creating the sound for an Ionesco classic, as well as working an untraditional venue. At's possible that when Eugene Ionesco began composing that seminal work of absurdist theater, Rhinoceros, he was thinking of...

Authorities in India's remote northeastern Assam state launched a crackdown on rhinoceros poachers on Monday, rushing in armed paramilitary soldiers to a sprawling game reserve, officials said.The government action follows the killing of six rare one-horned rhinoceros at the Kaziranga National Park, 145 miles east...

Authorities are searching for poachers who have killed six rare one-horned rhinoceros in the past four months in a protected game reserve in India's northeastern Assam state, the state's chief warden said Tuesday.Two of the animals were killed in the past week inside the famed...

[Rhinocéros is not an allegory.] Few readers are likely to agree at the outset with this assertion, because for most interpreters of the play, starting with its author, Eugène Ionesco, Rhinocéros is indeed allegorical—or at least broadly symbolic. The meaning of the drama must be explained in dualistic terms, so the argument goes: good versus evil, Bérenger against the world, humanity refusing to succumb to the grotesque epidemic of rhinoceritis, the individual—flaw...

In the play Rhinocéros (1959) Eugène Ionesco creates a dynamic pattern by juxtaposing the archetypal motif with its infernal inversion. The audience, while watching society's spiritual decline and hopeless loss of identity, witnesses the rebirth of a slovenly drunk, unable to cope with life, who becomes a staunch, defiant defender of humanity. The first act opens with a picture of society in which everyone follows his narrow interests. And though people (an alcoholic, a grocer, a caf&#x...

The play "Rhinoceros" by European writer Ionesco, talks about symbolism, metaphors, imagery and allegory, including some about Nazi Germany.