Book Now For CITY OF GLASS at Lyric Hammersmith

Vivienne Acheampong, Mark Edel-Hunt, Chris New and Jack Tarlton star in the first stage adaptation of a Paul Auster novel in the UK, City of Glass, a brand new production by Tony Award-winning 59 Productions in a co-production with HOME, Manchester and Lyric Hammersmith. Book tickets now for the Lyric Hammersmith run on 20 April-20 May.

In 2017, as Auster turns 70 and The New York Trilogy, his first work of prose fiction marks three decades in publication, the first part of this celebrated trilogy which has captivated the imaginations of readers across the world will be staged in Manchester and London ahead of its international tour. City of Glass will be brought vividly to life in a dazzlingly original stage adaptation by 59 Productions and Olivier Award-nominated playwright Duncan Macmillan.

'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. 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?

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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