For a very limited time between 20th April and 20th May, Paul Auster’s City of Glass comes to the Lyric Hammersmith.
This play is based on the first novel in the The New York Trilogy written by Paul Auster, combined with the graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli.
“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. He falls under the spell of a strange and seductive woman, who engages him to protect her young husband from his sociopathic father. 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?”
The novel is brought to life in a dazzling stage adaptation which includes bold, technically ground-breaking production; using 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).
This production is by Tony Award-winning 59 Productions (An American in Paris, War Horse, David Bowie Is) and Olivier Award-nominated playwright Duncan Macmillan. who bring this seminal American novel to life in a dazzlingly original stage adaptation.
Tickets for Paul Auster’s City of Glass are now on sale, starting at just £32.