@fsinn @shuttersparks I remember reading “Rhinocerous” in high school and thinking “Nahhh… this is just too far-fetched.” Hooo boy…
@MPgh I read it then too, and (together with other works) fell forever in love with theatre of the absurd. @shuttersparks
@shuttersparks I love mass insanity!
@shuttersparks Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros is an exceptional piece of writing and I recommend it highly to anyone who hasn’t read it.
“The "epidemic" of the rhinoceroses serves as a convenient allegory for the mass uprising of Nazism and fascism before and during World War II... Ionesco demonstrates… allegorically, turning a blind eye to fascism, as individual citizens and entire countries did in the 1930s—is as harmful as direct violence.”
#fascism #education
https://www.sparknotes.com/drama/rhinoceros/themes/