![]() ![]() The result is a show that, for all its creative artistic flourishes, feels out of step with its own subject matter. The play was inspired by Rhinoceros and very much wears its influence on its sleeve, but it mostly dispenses with the satire to focus on the elements of absurdity. ![]() Julia’s Place, a comedy written and directed by Jerry Mouawad and currently playing at the Imago Theatre, isn’t. In spite of its ridiculousness, Rhinoceros was and remains a chilling story about a “polite” society that finds itself utterly unprepared to face an extremist political group. ![]() Some of them even joined the Iron Guard, a paramilitary group that went on to serve in Marshal Ion Antonescu’s dictatorship. Ionesco based the story in part on his experience living in Bucharest during the 1930s, when a startling number of his peers expressed support for the nascent European fascist movement. In 1959, Eugène Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros, an absurdist satire about citizens of a small French town who, with little reason or explanation, spontaneously turn into nose-horned pachyderms from the African and Asiatic plains. Julia's Place (Myrrh Larsen) By Morgan Shaunette Jat 8:30 pm PDT ![]()
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