![]() ![]() Some audiences have embraced the implications of the powerful social message while others have balked at what they see as the overt didacticism of the play.Ī recent edition of Rhinoceros was published by Penguin in 2000. ![]() With its warning of how anyone might possibly fall victim to the pressures of conformity, the play has sparked varied and passionate reactions. ![]() (The first English production of Rhinoceros was directed by Orson Welles and starred Laurence Olivier.) But it was the 1961 Broadway production that starred Eli Wallach as Berenger and Zero Mostel as Jean that launched Ionesco to previously unimagined celebrity. Adapted from a short story of the same name, the play was first staged in Dusseldorf in October, 1959, and it is also the play that brought Ionesco's work to a global audience, premiering in Paris in 1960 and at the Royal Court in London later the same year. ![]() In considering the entire body of Eugène Ionesco's writing, his full-length play Rhinoceros (1959) is recognized as the most fully articulated expression of his disgust with the tide of institutional and personal conformism that he saw as a rising force in the twentieth century. ![]()
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