59 Productions, HOME and Lyric Hammersmith presents Paul Auster’s City of Glass, adapted by Duncan Macmillan from the first novel in the New York Trilogy, and the graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli. Tony Award-winning 59 Productions and award-winning writer Duncan Macmillan bring this seminal American novel to life in a dazzlingly original stage adaptation.
“It was a wrong number that started it.”
When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own. As the familiar territory of the noir detective genre gives way to something altogether more disturbing, Quinn becomes consumed by his mission, and begins to lose his grip on reality. Will he be drawn deeper into the abyss, or could the quest provide the purpose and meaning he needs to rebuild his shattered life? This bold, technically ground-breaking production uses stagecraft, projection, magic and illusion to immerse audiences in the dizzying, disorientating and ultimately transcendental story that helped establish Auster’s reputation as “one of America’s greatest living novelists” (The Guardian).
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