Um viðburðinn

"Imprisoned in solitary confinement by Nazis, a stolen book of chess games becomes The Prisoner’s only way to cling to sanity. Fighting madness, he chooses schizophrenia, surviving by dividing his mind into two feuding chess masters. After his escape, he dares himself to walk the edge of a volcano of madness as he challenges the greatest chess player in the world to a match in Richard McElvain's reimagining of Stefan Zweig’s classic.

As the story unfolds, the narrator builds a meta-theatre frame around the play examining the power of illusion, arguing passionately that, like the prisoner, we depend on illusions to survive and live another day. For example, going to the theatre.

THE CHESS PLAYER has been growing out of my soul for two years. Since I premiered it at Edinburgh Fringe ’17 it continues to have a life. London, Saint Petersburg, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Germany, Helsinki and now, to my great pleasure, The RVK Fringe."

Reykjavik Fringe 2019