Gnit
by Will Eno

Name: Gnit
Brand: Will Eno
SKU: 9780573703072
Rating: 3.88 (1 reviews)

Highlights

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Male

120 mins Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Comedy

Synopsis

Is laziness the opposite of love?

Is the search for the Self for total nobodies?

These are questions posed through the prolific pen of Will Eno, one of America's leading contemporary playwrights, whose talents for playful idiosyncratic language shine through in Gnit.

Watch closely as Peter Gnit, a funny-enough but so-so specimen of humanity, makes a lifetime of bad decisions, on the search for his True Self, which is disintegrating while he searches.

A rollicking and very cautionary tale about, among other things, how the opposite of love is laziness.

Gnit is a faithful, unfaithful, and willfully American reading of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, a 19th-century Norwegian play which is famous for all the wrong reasons, written by Will Eno, who has never been to Norway.

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Peter male, 30s-40s	male	30s	male, 30s-40s
Stranger 1 (STRANGER 3, MOYNIHAN, VOICE, HUNTER, ROBBER, Voice of SPHINX, SHACKLETON, PALE MAN, REPORTER), male, late 20s-40s	male	20s	(STRANGER 3, MOYNIHAN, VOICE, HUNTER, ROBBER, Voice of SPHINX, SHACKLETON, PALE MAN, REPORTER), male, late 20s-40s
Stranger 2 (BRIDESMAID, BRIDE, GROUPIE, WOMAN IN GREEN, HELEN, CASE WORKER, ANITRA, PASTOR, BREMER, ANNA), female, late 20s-40s	female	20s	(BRIDESMAID, BRIDE, GROUPIE, WOMAN IN GREEN, HELEN, CASE WORKER, ANITRA, PASTOR, BREMER, ANNA), female, late 20s-40s
Town (THE GREEN FAMILY, INTERNATIONAL MAN, BEGRIFFIN), male, 30s-50s	male	30s	(THE GREEN FAMILY, INTERNATIONAL MAN, BEGRIFFIN), male, 30s-50s
Solvay (BARTENDER, DARK LADY, GRAVEDIGGER, AUCTIONEER), female, 30s-40Note: Double-cast roles are in parentheses. This suggested configuration will require a number of quick-changes, but these are certainly in the spirit of the play.	female	30s	(BARTENDER, DARK LADY, GRAVEDIGGER, AUCTIONEER), female, 30s-40Note: Double-cast roles are in parentheses. This suggested configuration will require a number of quick-changes, but these are certainly in the spirit of the play.
Mother (UNCLE JOE, BEGGAR), female, 60s or so	female	60s	(UNCLE JOE, BEGGAR), female, 60s or so