QFWFQ review – If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller is taken in a bold new direction
Source: www.theguardian.com ·
Section: entertainment-sports ·
Bias: Center-Left
· Published: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:06 GMT
Summerhall, EdinburghGregory Nussen spins Italo Calvino’s surrealist authorial intrusions into a fascinating, playful and political showHow to adapt an unadaptable novel famed for its postmodern surrealism and authorial intrusions? For Los Angeles performer Gregory Nussen, there can be only one solution: a play built out of postmodern surrealism and authorial intrusions.That is what becomes of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller as filtered, refracted and reinvented by Nussen and directed by Hannah Pilkes. What in 1979 was a head-spinning novel about the reader trying to make sense of the novel’s unrelated manuscripts becomes, with the actor’s charm, wit and storytelling chops, a playful one-person show that has a fierce political heart beneath its metatheatrical games.At Summerhall, Edinburgh, until 31 AugustAll our Edinburgh festival reviews Continue reading...
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