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Rhinoceros
By Eugene Ionesco - Stage play
Roles
- Berenger - Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50), Male
About this piece
Berenger won't capitulate to rhinoceritis!
Summary
This play belongs to the "Theater of the Absurd" and concerns the inhabitants of a small French town who suddenly, without any explanation, start turning into rhinoceroses. Berenger is the main character of the play who, even if all his friend and ultimately his girlfriend Daisy, turn into rhinoceroses, refuses to capitulate and join them. This monologue comes in act III right after his girlfriend Daisy has decided to join the rest of the rhinos and has left him. In this long monologue, in a mix of despair, anger, delusion and frustration, Berenger despairs that his girlfriend has left him, then refuses to join her, later changes his mind and wishes he had joined them and ends with him refusing to capitulate...
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