Drawing inspiration from everything from Strictly Ballroom to Beetlejuice, this month an absurdist work from the late ’50s is getting a new life on the stage.
In the basement theatre of fortyfivedownstairs, a transformation is taking place. A town plaza somewhere in provincial France is being taken over by overbearing beasts, dangerous and aggressive. One baffled local resists conformity and extremism as, one by one, her neighbours begin turning into angry rhinos., a new staging of Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 play, directed by Cassandra Fumi, and produced by Melbourne’s Spinning Plates Co, the team behind last year’s hitAnd yes, it’s a metaphor.
“It’s really about the political divide,” says Cerche. “We’re living in a time when the grey area is so hard to be in. It’s yes or no, the left and right butting heads, and failing to communicate ideas. Absurdist theatre is about the failure to communicate between people. The play is about the spread of an idea. Something dangerous.”
“It’s very absurd, the play, and funny, but deeply troubling,” says Stanley. “It’s hard to hold onto your own values and morality in a time when sharing your voice has become such a dangerous thing.”had two successful runs at fortyfivedownstairs. Adapted by British playwright Tom Basden from a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, it’s a comedy about a man who is swallowed alive by a crocodile and finds life inside the beast strangely agreeable.
In fact, Cerche and Barber have been friends since childhood. They used to watch horror movies together, and put on zero-budget plays as teenagers. Together with Stanley and the rest of the team, they have developed a common language., and they’ll be back again.
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