Theatre / 90 min / £10(£8) / PG
Showing @ Summerhall, 10-24 Aug, 15.00
Early on in 50 Letters’ production, a group of actors coalesces into a surprisingly convincing train. Protagonist Josef is travelling to the Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass to visit his father. Josef’s father is dead, but he lives in a world where time is reversed and dreams become the fabric of daily life. Inspired by the work of Polish writer and artist Bruno Schulz, this production is a beautiful, funny, surreal and often impenetrable vision of a father-son relationship like no other. Just as Schulz’s work was richly layered in metaphors and labyrinthine visions, Pages from the Book of… feels suitably elusive, a fleeting series of vignettes that together begin to hint at the deeper meaning that lies beneath.
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