Rhinoceros
(Eugene Ionesco)
The production is aided by imaginative design. Designer Christopher Barreca has created a versatile unit set that conveys the various settings specified by Ionesco and makes clever use of the thrust stage. He has also added a scenic sleight of hand in the last scene, which enhances the notion of a world gone awry. The floor becomes a wall, and a wall becomes a ceiling, skewing the room?s perspective. Costume designer Beaver Bauer?s witty costumes are stylized versions of French 1950s clothes. He restricts the color palette to black, gray, and white for all characters but one. Berenger?s love interest, Daisy, is clothed in a sunny yellow and, as the world goes crazy towards the end and she succumbs to rhinocoritis, a rich burgundy.
Despite the skill of the production, time has not been kind to the play. It no longer has the moral force it had in the years after WWII. But as global events periodically demonstrate, less admirable human traits have a way of recurring. Let us hope that this play does not become as pertinent again.
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