Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation of Auster’s innovative detective novel will have its world premiere in Manchester
City of Glass, Paul Auster’s meta-detective novel about a thriller writer who finds himself playing sleuth, will be staged in Manchester and London next year in a new hi-tech adaptation. It is the first theatre show created by 59 Productions, whose projects have included the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, the V&A exhibition David Bowie Is and the sound-and-light spectacular Deep Time at this year’s Edinburgh international festival.
The book has been adapted by Duncan Macmillan, who says he first read it as a teenager and was “dazzled by its formal innovation and sheer weight of ideas. For such a short novella, it buzzes with thoughts about literature and authorship, about identity and time and death and faith, all within a mystery story that deconstructs itself as if it’s been corrupted by a virus.” City of Glass, published in 1985, became part of Auster’s New York Trilogy, hailed as a sophisticated take on the genres of both crime and city fiction. Auster himself appears as a character – believed by the narrator to have “behaved badly” throughout the novel – and it is stuffed with references to Cervantes and Edgar Allan Poe.
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