Rhinoceros

12th Ave Arts
1620 12th Ave. Seattle

Eugene Ionesco was the master of the Theater of the Absurd, a dramatic genre wherein the world is incomprehensible and anything a writer can imagine can happen. For instance, in Rhinoceros it seems like a normal day ... until everyone but the main character begins to turn into a rhinoceros. Written during the aftermath of World War II, the play served as a harsh criticism of the circumstances that led to widespread acceptance of fascism and Nazism. Today it remains a pointed and terribly timely critique of conformity, mass culture and allowing society to set the definition of morality. This Strawberry Theatre Workshop production of Rhinoceros at 12th Ave Arts in Seattle kicks off the new season, providing an absurd but eerily accurate commentary on our modern political landscape, in which action comes first and rationalization comes later.