The Print Room at The Coronet presents a new commission, the first major UK stage dramatisation of Albert Camus’ masterpiece The Outsider, adapted by Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.
Camus’ sparse parable about the human condition is regarded as a modern classic and one of modern literature’s most celebrated works.
‘The Outsider, with its distilled narrative, is the perfect work to adapt for the stage. Camus’ novel transmutes the mood of an era in a spellbinding story about grief, the difficulty of love, and the insidious capacity of society to repress individual truth. In an extraordinary way it is also relevant to the problems of our times. I was delighted to be able to adapt this great novel for the Print Room at the Coronet. With its rich history and its artistic programme that is distinguished, international and brave, the Print Room is exactly the right place to perform The Outsider.’ Ben Okri.
The Outsider is the story of Mersault, a young French clerk in 1940s Algeria, disengaged from a world in which he doesn’t really fit. Following his unemotional response to the death of his mother, and his senseless killing of someone he barely knows under the glare of the Algerian sun, he finds himself on trial not only for the murder but also for his refusal to conform to society’s expectations.
The Outsider is at Print Room at The Coronet 14th September to 13th October 2018.
