Marginalia: the scribblings, doodles and quotidian commentary you find vandalising the edges of a well-worn page. The uncomfortable, nagging, niggling thoughts pushed to the side of a story, shouting over the top of the original or shamelessly wedging their way in.
The play starts with Nikolai Gogol’s classic story The Nose, where a civil servant finds his nose has escaped his face and taken on a life of its own. But then it becomes The Government Inspector, and Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and maybe Cyrano de Bergerac and The Raven or Heart of a Dog, we’re not sure…
What starts as one man’s humiliating journey to get his nose back becomes a cacophony of tall-tales, testimonies, disputes and non-sequiturs that’ll all wrap up neatly in the end, they promise.
Directed by the brilliant Katy Maudlin (Meet Me At Dawn, MTC) this original play by Pummel Squad offers a hilarious look at the feelings we push to the margins, and the foibles that are as obvious as the nose on your face.
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