The Beit Lessin production of Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, directed by Yair Sherman, with a translation into Hebrew by Eli Bijaoui, is visually compelling, fun and playfully subversive, with an imaginative and significant soundscape. The play opens like a concert, with music stands set up on which the sheet music says “Rhinoceros” and the cast all line up, emitting strange noises. It’s the perfect way to show a rhinoceros without showing a rhinoceros. Each scene change takes place in full view of the audience, with the cast clearing and building the set – all to music, of course. During one scene change, Jean led the song, urging the audience to clap in rhythm.