RHINOCEROS
ALMEIDA THEATRE
By Eugène Ionesco | Translated and Directed by Omar Elerian
Set and Costume design by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita | Lighting by Jackie Shemesh | Sound Design by Elena Peña
Cast: Hayley Carmichael, Sọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Paul Hunter, Anoushka Lucas, Joshua McGuire, Sophie Steer, Alan Williams and John Biddle
Set and Costume design by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita | Lighting by Jackie Shemesh | Sound Design by Elena Peña
Cast: Hayley Carmichael, Sọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Paul Hunter, Anoushka Lucas, Joshua McGuire, Sophie Steer, Alan Williams and John Biddle
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I'll be forever grateful to Omar Elerian for pulling me out of acting retirement to be part of the cast, as well as looking after the music of this extraordinary production. He and I worked together in 2015 on ISLANDS, a buffon show about tax havens, by Caroline Horton. To be in another of his beautiful rooms, and share the Almeida stage with a group of this talent, experience and brilliance, was a lifetime moment.
Omar mentioned Baroque music very early in our conversations about this production, and that led us eventually to Bach's Prelude in F Minor BWV 881. I played this live to accompany the opening scene, then created a set of variations and pieces derived from its simple opening figure. As the story (and Berenger's mental state) disintegrates, along with the wonderful sound designer Elena Peña, we were able to follow that with a disintegration of the clean structural solidity of the original Bach piece.
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Photos Marc Brenner
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"Brilliantly mischieveous take" TIME OUT |
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"Bold new adaptation" OBSERVER |