In a revolutionary theatrical company designed to be not only the first but also the last of its kind, A theater company based in McLean, Virginie, called Thule company provides for a summer staging of the disturbing anti -fascist allegory of Eugène Ionene RhinocerosBut with a 360 -degree radical perspective that will throw the room into a new austere light. With ambitious plans to occupy public parks, restaurants, grocery stories and large -box establishments in the 50 states, the immersive production of Thule will give immediacy and realism to the climbing of social devastation delimited in the classic of 1959 of Ionesco.
“We want to give viewers a visceral experience of the upheavals and chaos that Iionesco imagined so early,” said Thule director and founder Oliver Revilo. “More importantly, we want to recreate a meaning in real time of public passivity and conformity which allow such chaos to spread without control.”
The piece of Ionesco portrays the inexorable descent of a provincial French city in insane mass psychosis, while its inhabitants are gradually transformed into raging rhinosses which waste the city, stimulating local intellectuals to argue the best. In the end, the whole Bérenger, except only one, doubtful, bérenger, faces the threat by succumbing to it. The casting did not start for the difficult central role, but said Revilo with a certain satisfaction: “The parts of the ineffective resistance will be too easy to launch.”
While the previous stands of Rhinoceros adopted different approaches to represent the off -track violence formulated by animals stamped in the play, Revilo said that the production of Thule would require the dispute of dozens of real rhinos for maximum likelihood, as well as makeup and prostheses developed for artists in various transformation states.
“We do not want any barrier between the public and the reality of the hard and clarifying violence of the play,” said Revilo. “In fact, the ideal audience for that Rhinoceros Will be without suspicious viewers who meet the show during their daily life and are really shaken. »»
The logistics of the assembly of a room simultaneously in hundreds of American cities and small cities do not seem to intimidate Revilo or its relatively new company in Thule, whose latest production was a renewal of the play rarely seen by Hans Rehberg Wolves. Revilo underlined the solid links that his company built with federal government agencies, especially in the Departments of Defense and Internal Security, as well as the US digital service. He also alluded to a newly welcoming atmosphere on university campuses, another category of Thoule location hopes to bring their Rhinoceros Directed in due time.
In related news, The Kennedy Center announced today This Thule will be the production company of resident theater of the Institution of the Show.
