Wonderful review of a performance based on Dürer’s Rhinoceros:
“the performance takes up puppetry as a dynamic and … a unique access for us to reimagine the objects with a diverse mode of liveliness, demanding that we rediscover the subjecthood of animals that we have long ignored and suppressed.”
Adrienne Ghaly
For MTC, Yiwen Wu reviews 'Rhynoceron,' presented at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in January 2026.
"...dramaturgically structured as two parts: the first half from the perspective of gawking gaze of human collectors and the second half from that of the animal, the rhinoceron."
At the very end of the play, as well as in history, the rhinoceros drowns in the sea on the boat ride to Europe. Tracing the events surrounding the arrival of a one-horned Indian rhinoceros to Rena…
