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Produced by Gangguan! and Summerhall (Edinburgh)

Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns?

15 - 27 August 2023

Summerhall Red Lecture Theatre

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023

Nominated for The Offies 2023

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Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns (or can they not see them like how we can't see our noses) by Edward Eng

Rooted in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros in Love
Directed by Adeeb Fazah 
Starring Cheryl Ho, Shannen Tan

Sound Designer: Vick Low
Associate Producer: Lim Shien Hian
 

“What if the reason I don’t like capitalism is that I just wanna chill out a bit?”
 

Rhinoceroses or capybaras? Blackpink or something less cling clangy? Two old friends are making a radio play for the internet. This week’s episode is about the ‘rhinoceritis epidemic’ in the 1980s, where rhinoceroses have inexplicably started taking over the growing metropolis of Singapore.
 

Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns? (or can they not see them like how we can’t see our noses) is rooted in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros but re-asks what conformism means as we live through what is objectively the best time in human history. It is funny, bleak, sometimes joyous, but always full of play. Expect some interesting sounds.

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This two-hander is both sly and playful, cartoonish and radical. Ho and Tan's vivid performances touch a real nerve with their charming, uneasy doublethink. 

 

The Scotsman

★★★★

The performers have a terrific rapport with each other and the audience, and what seems deceptively simple on the surface has many hidden depths that gradually occur to you long after the show has ended. Provocative yet playful.

 

The Real Chris Sparkle

★★★★

A self-professed riff on Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist satire of fascism, Rhinoceros, the company runs wild with artistic licence. It’s playful, political, specifically Singaporean but speaks to the world we live in.

 

William Heraghty of Broadway Baby

★★★★

This show proved to be as entertaining as it was informative, and as absurd as it was thoughtful.

 

Chris Omaweng of LondonTheatre1

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