Rhinoceroses

Can we stay friends, even when I'm a rhinoceros and you are not?

Dance/Theatre/Live Music, 50 min., 9 years +

What would you do, if your best friend turned into a rhinoceros? H and B have been the best of friends a real long time now. They live in a small town just beyond the outskirts of a major city. And there of all places something really strange is happening.
The sounds of stamping and snorting are to be heard here, there and everywhere. Well you see, as it happens, being a rhinoceros is kind of the “in-thing”.

Based on Eugène Ionescos work “The Rhinoceroses”, this piece explores the themes of the loss of identity and social conformity. Through dance and the music of the Wladigeroff brothers the piece examines the topics of imitation and self-assertion and along the way tells the heart-warming story of a very special friendship.

Szene Bunte Wähne l 2006 (work in progress)
Schäxpir Festival l Linz l 2006
Szene Bunte Wähne l 2007
Dschungel Wien l 2007

crew

Concept/choreography/performance: Gabriele Wappel, Janina Sollmann
Live Music: Alexander und Konstantin Wladigeroff
Coach: Simone Weis
Choreography Advisor: Maria Kirsch
Stage and Lighting: Silvia Auer
Costume: Anna Panzenberger
Illustrations: Dorli Mayer

Photography: Herzenberger


With friendly support of: Stadt Wien, Land Oberösterreich, bmukk
Special thanks to: tanzpool