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Spaced-out by Solaris
ANGUS REID goes on a hallucinatory journey inspired by one of the great science-fiction novels
Chekhov meets Alien: Keegan Joyce and Polly Frame in Solaris
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Solaris
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
AS NEWS breaks that astronomers have discovered the new watery planet K2-18b, this co-production by the Lyceum and Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre bring us the story of scientists sent to investigate just such a planet and how it all goes wrong.
The ocean on Solaris is sentient and it toys with the spacemen by sending them replicants designed by their own repressed memories. The question is — are the scientists mad, or is this the way an alien might choose to make contact?
Writer David Grieg and director Matthew Lutton have created a compelling adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 sci-fi classic novel, later given cinematic life in versions by Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbegh.
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