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Rhinoceros" (Rhinocéros) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama, "The Theatre of the Absurd," although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. Through the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately, the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle, and later for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses.
The Theatre of the Absurd is a literary and dramatic movement that emerged in the late 1940s and 1950s, primarily in Europe. It is characterized by its unconventional and non-traditional approach to theater, focusing on the absurdity and irrationality of the human condition. The movement's major playwrights include Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, and Arthur Adamov. The Theatre of the Absurd continues to be an influential and thought-provoking form of theater, inspiring subsequent generations of playwrights and performers to experiment with unconventional storytelling and unconventional themes.