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Performing Arts - 2020-2021 School Year

This school year, LREI actors put on a virtually filmed version of Rhinoceros. Below, you will find a description of the performance from HS Play Director Joan Jubett and the video of the full production.

A rhinoceros appears and tears up a town square, trampling everything in its path. Where did it come from? Should everyone ignore it or argue the merits and motives of a rhinoceros rolling through? Perhaps going back to talking about nothing is a better idea, until another rhinoceros appears. And another. Wildly ridiculous and beautifully incoherent, Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros sneakily packs an important punch of a message. The rise of European Fascism in the 1920s and 30s and the founding of the Iron Guard in Ionesco's home country of Romania is the backdrop for one of the great Absurdist plays of the 20th century. Don't miss it.