live garra theatre
PRESENTS
JUNE 20 - JULY 5
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
— Eugène Ionesco
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
— Eugène Ionesco
Tickets: $30 purchased online / $35 at the door
Seniors/Students: $20 purchased online / $25 at the door
GROUP SALES: $15 (groups 10 or more)
Seniors/Students: $20 purchased online / $25 at the door
GROUP SALES: $15 (groups 10 or more)
When Eugene Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros, in the 1950s, he was looking at how a community could metamorphosize into masses of rhinoceroses. He said of the ‘rhinoceritis' epidemic: “a new plague of modern times, a strange disease that thrives in different forms; automatic systematized thinking, the idolization of ideologies screens the mind from reality, perverts our understanding and makes us blind.”
The play follows a small town where residents gradually turn into rhinoceroses, leaving one person fighting to keep his humanity. It is seen as an allegory on autocracy, conformity, and individual integrity.
Parental guidance is advised; adult and controversial themes may be discussed
The play follows a small town where residents gradually turn into rhinoceroses, leaving one person fighting to keep his humanity. It is seen as an allegory on autocracy, conformity, and individual integrity.
Parental guidance is advised; adult and controversial themes may be discussed
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