Adaptations
The play was adapted to an urban American setting for a 1973 film (also called Rhinoceros) directed by Tom O'Horgan and starring Zero Mostel as John (Jean in the play), Gene Wilder as Stanley (Berenger) and Karen Black as Daisy.
The play was also adapted for a 1990 musical, titled Born Again at the Chichester Festival Theatre, by Peter Hall, Julian Barry and composer Jason Carr. For this the setting was relocated to an American shopping mall.
The 2008 comedy horror film Zombie Strippers purports to be an adaptation of the play, but with zombies instead of rhinoceros.
The play was modernized and moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 2008 by the Acadia Theatre Company of Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The play, under the name of Kargadan, has been adapted by the Iranian actor and director Farhad Ayeesh and has been on scene for approximately two months.
Adishakti Theatre in Pondichéri India performed it as one of four plays in their "retrospective" at the Prithvi Theatre Festival in Mumbai Nov09, and for the Indian National School of Drama's (NSD) Utsav Festival in Delhi on 15Jan10
The Royal Court Theatre revived the play in 2007 and starred Benedict Cumberbatch as Berenger and directed by Dominic Cooke.
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