Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros to analyze

Rhinoceros is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow.

 

Rhinoceros, quasi-allegorical play in three acts by Eugène Ionesco, produced in Germany in 1959 and published in French the same year as Le Rhinocéros.

 

At the play’s outset, Jean and Bérenger sit at a provincial café when a solitary rhinoceros runs by them. The next day, townspeople are talking about the strange and sudden proliferation of rhinoceroses and about the metamorphosis of fellow citizens into these creatures. When his friend Jean is transformed, Bérenger attempts to warn everyone, but he appears to be the sole remaining human.

 

This program was broadcast for the first time on Thursday, and those who are interested can listen to its rebroadcast on Monday, at 9 pm on the "Story Labyrinth" program. Behnaz Bostandoust has narrated Rhinoceros and  it has analyzed and studied in the expert section with Kayhan Bahmani. The  biography is narrated by Reza Omrani and  the show is produced by Zhaleh Mohammad Ali.