Word: rhinocerosity
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Most audiences would dispute her, and so would her fellow actors. After a season with the Old Vic, she played opposite Olivier in Rhinoceros. "Marvelous," said Sir Larry. Richard Burton was wary of doing a scene with her in The V.I.P.s and, as he had feared, she took the scene...
Ionesco and the Charles Playhouse ought to make a perfect couple--Ionesco with innumerable gimmicks to lure his audience onto the stage, the Charles with its seats circling the platform and its actors circling the platform and its actors scurrying up and down the aisles. In Michael Murray's Rhinoceros...
Rhinoceros is clever if not especially profound. As the play begins, some French villagers are passing their Sunday afternoon with trivial conversation. A rhinoceros thunders through the middle of town. A second follows, and a preposterous argument ensues. Did the rhinos have one or two horns, were they African or...
By the end of the second act, everyone is turning into a rhinoceros. Jean (Herbert Voland) changes before Berenger's eyes, at first thinking he's sick, then talking the part of a rhino compassionately: "We should go back to nature. We need primeval integrity in this world!" Voland's...
Murray's production succeeds in almost every other respect. The scenery is quaintly French, the sound effects--bellowing beasts and thundering herds--frightfully realistic, and the two bedrooms scenes deftly staged. Ionesco's dry comic touches exude his French sense of humor and the final scene in Berenger's room...