DATE AND VENUE

01.06.2012, 20.30
02.06.2012, 20.30
Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage

Lasts 105’; no intermission.
With Turkish surtitles.

Théâtre de la Ville-Paris

• Written by: Eugène Ionesco
• Directed by: Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
• Set & Lighting Design: Yves Collet
• Music: Jefferson Lembeye
• Co-produced by: Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg-Le Grand T, scène conventionnée de Loire Atlantique
• Assistant Director: Christophe Lemaire

A rhinoceros’ attack on a city followed by the panic experienced and caused by people turning into rhinoceroses... Renowned playwright Eugène Ionesco’s text which reflects the historical and political turmoil of the 1950s is restaged by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, director of Théâtre de la Ville and Paris Festival d’Automne, with bold references to the present and the distinct discoveries of the of the young director... Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota advocates that it is necessary to go back, from time to time, to the playwrights who approach the position, the role, the responsibility and the freedom of thought of the individual in the common consciousness of the history refraining from all sorts of individualistic forms. He creates a tension between the surreal and the material and presents chaos with the deafening noise of the city through the use of a stage language he has created.