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RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco

Directed by: Kalamazoo College Alum, Liza Bielby 

When: Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7:30pm; Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13-14 at 8:00pm; and Sunday, Nov. 15 at 2pm.

Where: Nelda K. Balch Playhouse, Kalamazoo College

Cost: Thursday: Pay What You Want!
            Friday-Sunday: $5.00 for Students, $10.00 for Seniors, $15.00 for adults

Tickets: can be purchased one hour prior to each performance in the Nelda K. Balch Playhouse Lobby. Festival Seating. Please call      269-337-7333 if you need to make special arrangements for seats.   

When a rhinoceros suddenly appears stampeding through the streets of a peaceful small town, the stage is set for master playwright of Absurdism, Eugene Ioneseco’s most straightforward and popular allegorical comedy. More and more humans transform into rhinoceroses until what had been seen as strange and abnormal eventually becomes the standard of normal behavior. When the  “last normal human being” in the town tries desperately to will himself to transform into a rhinoceros so he will not be alone, Ionesco’s masterpiece satire of conformity is complete.