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Having seen so many snippets from Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" looking like Commedia Del Art performances, I wondered if something was missing. Was Ionesco's Rhino simply a device of sledge-hammer fun or even as simply an absurd device for a kind of irreverent lampooning of some political movement? I took Ionesco's notion that it is really ourselves and our predisposition to frame our reality with the heard! I tried to apply this in a process of creating a work that would stand alo

Eugene Ionesco created works from outside the boundaries of considered art and culture. The works were not didactic nor cool for their age. Yet go to Paris and you might still see productions of his work at Théâtre de la Huchette from the same original company that first presented the plays sixty-five or so years ago. Rhinoceros is possibly the most famous Ionesco work; while almost defining the notion of Theatre of the Absurd. However, it would be misguided to suggest Ionesc

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