The creative team includes MFA Design students Matthew Norman (Set & Lighting) and Won Kyoon Han (Sound), BFA Design student Christina Dao (Costumes) and BFA Production student Jayda Paige Novak. Rhinoceros features a riotous herd of 22 actors, including UBC BFA Acting students Georgia Beaty, Morgan Churla, Lara Deglan, Alen Domiguez, Joel Garner, Sarah Harrison, Luke Johnson, Alexander Keurvorst, Kenton Klassen, Kat McLaughlin, Daniel Meron, Nick Preston, Matt Reznek, Courtney Shields and Naomi Vogt. Favorite ITSAZOO credits include Mojo, Stay Away From My Boat Chairs, Robin Hood, The Road to Canterbury, Five Red Balloons, Grimm Tales, Casualties of, Death of a Clown, Alice in Wonderland and The Zoo Story. Credits at UBC include Mark Ravenhill’s Faust is Dead. She is a graduate of the University of Victoria with a degree in Theatre and specialization in Applied Theatre and Directing. MFA Directing student Chelsea Haberlin is Co-Artistic Director and General Manager of ITSAZOO Productions, a company she co-founded in 2004 and with whom she has many credits.
He was elected to the Académie Française in 1970. Other plays include The Bald Soprano, The Chairs and The Lesson. The play was based on Ionesco’s own experiences in Romania, which inspired him to oppose conformism and act against totalitarianism. His most renowned play is Rhinoceros (1959), in which totalitarianism is depicted as a disease that turns human beings into savage rhinoceroses. “Still astonishing after more than 40 years… “ - New York TimesĮugène Ionesco was one of the most important French playwrights of the 20th century and a leading character of the “absurdist theatre.” In his drama Ionesco focuses on the question of human existence as well as the trivia of everyday life. As bipeds become an ever-smaller minority, what will it take for him to stand up to the increasing menace of rhinocerisation? This satirical comedy is an insightful critique of mindless conformity that still resonates today. What do you do when everyone around you is turning into a rhinoceros?Įugène Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece follows a tragic everyman called Berenger, who must navigate the chaos in his small French village as the townsfolk are transformed into stampeding pachyderms.
Matt Reznik plays Berenger in Theatre at UBC's production of Rhinoceros.
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