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About the Show

A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming. One sane man, Berenger, remains, unable to change his form and identity. The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition.

Cast & Creatives

Additional Creatives & Support

Assistant Director Rachel Rosenberg

Production Stage Manager Allen Sager

Assistant Stage Manager Sadie Baran

Production Assistant Gianna Jones

Fight Captain Allen Sager

Production Manager Oliver Wason

Technical Director Meredith Yoho

Asst. Technical Director Owen Chadbourne

Asst. Scenic Designer Maren Leyva

Props Coordinator Colleen Callahan

Props Manager Wyatt Ruggiero

Props Asst. Ryan Deleo, Kaley Melillo

Scenic Charge Maren Leyva

Asst. Scenic Charge Ethan Roy

Costume Shop Manager Hilary Oak

Asst. to Costume Designer Brianna Twerdy

Wardrobe Head Mariah Cotes

Wardrobe Crew Francesca Del Gardo, Sebastian Martelle, Sora Matta, Kayla Haentjens

A1/A2 Kaylee Garcia

Co-Master Carpenter Jess Ragucci, Nora Watson

Run Crew Kayla Navarro, Levi Nechitilo

Lighting Coordinator Kori Hansen

Master Electrician James King

Video Engineer George LaChance

Dramaturgs Rachel Rosenberg, Jackson Owen, Joni Manaj, Oiara Quichiz

Videographer Kevin Geraghty

Marketing Publicity Eric Gomez

Producing Artistic Director Justin P. Cowan

The CAST

Partner 1 Jake Stemmer
Partner 2 Lucy Neel
Waitress Stevie Rain Bennett
Proprietor Zachary Simmons
Grocer* Trevor Howard, Bryan Dean Reimertz
Grocer’s Wife Willa Voorhis
Housewife* Asia Aloma, Adele Maria
Logician Ethan Roy
Old Man Isaac Wayne Motes
Jean Jackson Owen
Mrs. Boeuf Sofia Zizolfo-Gonzalez
Daisy* Asia Aloma, Adele Maria
Berenger Joni Manaj
Dudard Ethan Roy
Botard Ethan W. Doyle
Papillon* Trevor Howard, Bryan Dean Reimertz
Fire Fighter Willa Voorhis

Understudies  Trevor Howard, Jake Stemmer, Zachary Simmons, Bryan Dean Reimertz, Emily Sullivan, Olivia Renée-Anne, Lucy Neel, Ingrid Opdahl.

*Please note that this show is double cast. The performance schedule is as follows:

CAST UNICORN: April 17, 19, 25
Housewife Adele Maria
CAST BICORN: April 18, 24, 26
Housewife Asia Aloma
Papillion Trevor Howard

The CREATIVES

Playwright Eugène Ionesco

Translation Derek Prouse 

Director Sal Trapani

Scenic Design Maureen Freedman

Lighting Design Evan Anderson

Costume Design Kiyoshi Shaw

Sound Design Arielle Edwards Bennett, Ben Warner

Community Conversation

Join us on April 25th directly following the 2pm matinee performance of Rhinoceros for our Community Conversation with the director, student dramaturgs, and special guest, Professor JC Barone.

JC has been an active producer/director/educator for over 20 years. He received the Connecticut State University System-wide Teaching Award (2014) and he was awarded a Faculty Fellowship at the Television Academy in Los Angeles (2015). His documentary on WWII hero Major “Doc” Brown screened at seven film festivals (2018-2019) and won a Telly Award. His latest documentary on artist, writer, feminist Kate Millett is exhibiting at the Dorsky Museum of Art, fall 2021.
JC’s students took 1st and 2nd place for three years in live Multicamera Studio Production at the BEA competition’s Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas in 2015, 2016, and 2020, placing in the top 5% nationally. Media Arts students also have been awarded National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Boston/New England Student Production Awards.

 

 

Running Time

This production runs approximately 135 minutes.

Content Advisory

WestRep does not typically offer advisories about subject matter; however, we acknowledge that sensitivities vary from person to person, so If you would like to read the content advisory for the show, click the “Details” arrow below.

This production contains coarse language and adult themes, including references to political extremism and fascism.

Community Conversation

Join us on April 25th directly following the 2pm matinee performance of Rhinoceros for our Community Conversation with the director, student dramaturgs, and special guest, Professor JC Barone.

JC has been an active producer/director/educator for over 20 years. He received the Connecticut State University System-wide Teaching Award (2014) and he was awarded a Faculty Fellowship at the Television Academy in Los Angeles (2015). His documentary on WWII hero Major “Doc” Brown screened at seven film festivals (2018-2019) and won a Telly Award. His latest documentary on artist, writer, feminist Kate Millett is exhibiting at the Dorsky Museum of Art, fall 2021.
JC’s students took 1st and 2nd place for three years in live Multicamera Studio Production at the BEA competition’s Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas in 2015, 2016, and 2020, placing in the top 5% nationally. Media Arts students also have been awarded National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Boston/New England Student Production Awards.

 

 

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WestRep Stage Presents Rhinoceros

Running Time

This production runs approximately 135 minutes.

Content Advisory

WestRep does not typically offer advisories about subject matter; however, we acknowledge that sensitivities vary from person to person, so If you would like to read the content advisory for the show, click the “Details” arrow below.

This production contains coarse language and adult themes, including references to political extremism and fascism.