Gloucester Stage (Gloucester, MA)
Gloucester Stage Company presents Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's play Enigma Variations, the story of a journalist who is offered an unprecedented interview with a legendary and reclusive author. This beautifully wrought psychological drama is sometimes a duel and sometimes a duet, but never what it appears to be.
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I would of loved it if the play if it had stopped 10 minutes before it actually did. At that point the played looked like it ended but then came back. I thought the last ten mintues weren't the best note to end the play on. The acting was fine.
If someone said that there were too many plot twists - I would say there was proababely one too many.
Enigma Variations
By Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Translated by Jeremy Sams
Directed by GSC Artistic Associate David Zoffoli
Journalist Erik Larsen is offered an unprecedented interview with Abel Znorko, the larger than life author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This beautifully wrought psychological drama is sometimes a duel and sometimes a duet, but never what it appears to be.
Who do we love when we love? Do we ever know who the beloved one is? Is mutual affection but a happy and lucky misunderstanding?
Love is a mystery and the very reason why, on the stage, one man faces another. On one side, Abel Znorko, a Nobel Prize-winning author who lives far from men and civilization. On his island lost in the middle of the Norwegian sea, he keeps on remembering the woman he loved passionately and with whom he corresponded for a long time. On the other: Erik Larsen, a journalist who wants to interview the writer.
But the interview is only a pretext. So what is Larsen's secret motive? What is the link between him and this woman Znorko claims he has never forgotten? And most of all, why has the misanthrope agreed to meet him? The encounter will quickly turn into a very cruel and vicious truth game. The two men, like two boxers, will in turn reveal their secrets.
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