Die Nashörner

When people suddenly wear horns

Nobody knows where rhinos come from. And yet they are there. The play of the same name by Eugène Ionesco is a classic of absurdist theater, which the Theresien-Gymnasium's theater profile course is staging in the Silbersaal. Despite its classic status, the hidden theme is more topical than ever.

Portrait of a small town

From the zoo? From the circus? From the surrounding swamp forests? No, not possible in a town where there is neither a zoo nor a circus, let alone swamp forests. No one knows where the rhinos come from. But the fact that they are there cannot be denied. And the fact that more and more citizens are becoming rhinos is frightening. Their snorting and roaring, their destructive violence... It's sheer madness. Is that it? What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? Eugène Ionesco's The Rhinoceroses is a masterful portrait of a small town that moves with the times.

Theater at Theresien-Gymnasium

It is astonishing that such a lively theater life has developed in Munich's small Theresien-Gymnasium - after all, the ThG lacks an auditorium for events. But necessity is the mother of invention and so the drama teachers put out feelers and presented their performances on various stages in Munich. Ten years ago, drama classes were introduced in the lower school. This was followed by an elective course for the 7th to 10th grades and finally the theater profile course for the upper school. Most recently, this course performed Arthur Miller's drama Hexenjagd (2023) and Joseph Kesselring's black comedy Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen (2024).