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The RenegadeBakersfield College Rip Vol. 86 ∙ No. 11 www.therip.com Wednesday, March 18, 2015 ‘Rhinoceros’ hits the stage with absurdity By Amber Hayden Online Editor Despite all of the construction going on around the indoor the- ater, Kim Chin and her theater class managed to put on their production of “Rhinoceros.” The play, which is set during the time of the Nazi invasion into France, shows that instead of standing out and being different, that people were conforming in order to be safe. In an earlier interview with Chin, she had expressed the hopes of people who came to watch the play, and then they could apply what they saw to their modern day lives. The play is from theater of the absurd, which consists of main- ly 1950s European playwrights. The viewer can take the play in several different ways, but the main theme in Ionesco’s play was conformity. Cody Ferguson Gomez, who plays Berenger, along with Ryan Lee, who portrays Jean onstage, represents Miranda Jordan Chaves, who is conformity as he turns into a rhinoceros in the play. Daisy, have come to see those who were in the play with them Photos BY MASON J. Rockfellow / THE RIP as family now. Anthony Hernandez as Botard (left), Danny Bennett as Dudard, Cody Ferguson Gomez “There is family, and then as Berenger and Sam Molina as Mr. Papillion (right) perform in “Rhinoceros.” The play there is theater family,” com- ran from March 11-15 in the indoor theater. It was the first production of this semester. mented Gomez.
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