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Adaptations

The play was adapted 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.^[1]

The play was modernized and moved to an Unnamed North American city 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.