Paul Stephen appeared in the Jean Gascon-directed play written in part by whom?
Paul Stephen (Canadian actor) Paul Stephen is a film, television and live theatre actor/singer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has appeared in leading and principal roles in theatres across Canada and appears regularly in film and on television. He was seen in the film "A Raisin in the Sun", along with the feature film "Firehouse Dog" as the Mayor and as Reverend Mueller in "Casino Jack", starring Kevin Spacey. Paul trained at York University's acting program and began his acting career at the famed Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, appearing in such plays as "Othello", directed by David William, "She Stoops to Conquer", directed by Michael Bawtree, and "Pericles", directed by Jean Gascon.
Rhinoceros (play) Rhinoceros (French original title Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written 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. Over 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 then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, mass movements, mob mentality, philosophy and morality.