Composer Oguz Kaplangi on scoring the Royal Lyceum’s Duchess of Malfi
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When the Lyceum Theatre, DOT Theatre of Istanbul and the Edinburgh International Festival opened their brilliant production of Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros in August 2017, Oguz Kaplangi was there – and not only there in the Lyceum, listening proudly to the astonishing musical score he had composed for the show. In this award-winning production by his friend Murat Daltaban, Kaplangi was right at the heart of the action; perched on stage behind an array of drums and instruments, recreating live, at every performance, the magnificent cycle of sinister waltzes and rhythmic marches that he had conjured up to accompany Ionesco’s 1959 absurdist drama, in which, over a day, most of the inhabitants of a small town gradually turn into rhinoceroses, stampeding around in herds, destroying everything in their path, and abandoning all sense of individuality and humanity.