November 13–16, 2025 @ University of Virginia's College at Wise
This fall,the University of Virginia’s College at Wise Theater Division stages Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros,” an absurd and hilarious play hailed by The New York Timesas, “an allegory for our times.” Performances run Nov.13-15at 7 p.m. and Nov. 16at 2 p.m. on the UVA Wise campus in the Gilliam Center for the Arts Black Box Theater. Tickets are $5 for the public, or free with presentation of UVA Wise ID. Through partnership with the Pro-Art Association, Pro-Art season ticket holders are also free to attend. The Box Office opens one hour prior to the start of each performance.
The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition, a staple of every theater classroom and 20th century drama. A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens become rhinoceroses. One sane man, Berenger, remains, unable to change his form and identity. Theatergoers are in for an evening the New York Postcalls, "strange, disturbing and arresting.”
The UVA Wise Theater Division is devoted to theater as a unified art form that blurs the lines between visual-art, story and music by fusing performance, design and engineering in a single, meaningful experience. Find more information about the program,visit uvawise.edu.
The mission of Pro-Art is to advance the civic and cultural understandings achieved uniquely through the arts, by presenting a diverse range of high-quality artists and arts education programming, making them broadly accessible to the communities Pro-Art serves. For more information about planned performances or to purchase season tickets, visitproartva.org.
Category: Theatre