Word: rhinocerosity
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Rhinoceros, playing at the Loeb Experimental Theater, has a deceptively simple scenario: a provincial town is struck with a sort of a...well...epidemic. One by one, ordinary citizens start turning into rhinoceroses. At first the people struggle with disbelief, but as more and more victims go crashing through the streets trampling cats and knocking down stairs, the survivors become engaged in a struggle to retain their humanity. Eventually, only Berenger, a lackluster drunkard wrapped in a haze of brandy and paranoia is left to hopelessly affirm his own humanity as everyone around him joins the unstoppable herd of rhinoceroses...
Jean, played by Jorge Rodriguez '99, gives us one of the high points of the production when he transforms himself into a rhinoceros on stage. This metamorphosis begins only with a headache but gradually Jean's voice grows hoarse and he begins to pace about his bedroom with his head...
But it is Berenger, of course, that forms the keystone of the production. David Skeist '02, haggard, unkempt and unshaven, hunches his tall, thin frame into an attitude of perpetual anxiety and guilt. From beginning to end he imbues the play with a seemingly bottomless paranoic energy. This reaches its...
Their assignment was to locate two hard-to-find campus landmarks--Helen Keller's tribute to Annie Sullivan and the rhinoceros statues--and to ask socratic questions of people in the Square.
Their assignment was to locate two hard-to-find campus landmarks--Helen Keller's tribute to Annie Sullivan and the rhinoceros statues--and to ask socratic questions of people in the Square.