Rinoceront (Rhinocéros)

Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, director of the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris since 2008, reworks a production that he had already staged, in a new version that he has taken around the world: from London to New York, Berlin and Seoul. Rhinocéros tells the story of a village where all the inhabitants but one turn into rhinoceroses. Inspired by the birth of a fascist state in Romania in the 1930s, the play speaks of a History that, perhaps, does not change as much as we think, but merely sheds its skin, like this theatrical rhinoceros that suggests new allegories on each re-reading. Perhaps it is a warning to a society in which, little by little, through our own laziness, we are all becoming rhinoceroses? This production, which casts the clarifying light of truth and revelation on Ionesco’s text, contains surprising moments of physical theatre and movement, with a stage packed with players and beautiful imagery that we can gaze on whilst listening to the deafening sounds made by stampeding rhinoceroses. 

Autoria: Eugène Ionesco; Intèrprets: Serge Maggiani, Hugues Quester, Valérie Dashwood, Charles-Roger Bour, Gaëlle Guillou, Sarah Karbasnikoff, Walter N'guyen, Stephane Krähenbühl, Gérald Maillet, Pascal Vuillemot, Philippe Demarle, Jauris Casanova; Composició musical: Jefferson Lembeye; Escenografia i il·luminació: Yves Collet; Ajudant d'il·luminació: Nicolas Bats; Vestuari: Séverine Gohier, Corinne Baudelot, amb la col·laboració d'Élisabeth Cerqueira; Maquillatge: Catherine Nicolas; Utillatge: Clementine Aguettant; Ajudant de direcció: Christophe Lemaire; Col·laboració artística: François Regnault; Assessorament literari: Marie-Amélie Robillard; Regidoria: Claire Thiebault; Il·luminació: Nicolas Bats, Sabine Charreire ; Enginyer de so: Victor Koeppel, Jefferson Lembeye ; Regidoria d'escena: Stan Daubié, Romain Cliquot ; Posada en escena: Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota; Vestuari: Corinne Baudelot, amb la col·laboració d'Élisabeth Cerqueira; Ajudant: Séverine Gohier; Ajudant d'utillatge: Kevin Raymond;