Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” has been tamed. Gone are the trolls and dozens of actors, not to mention three acts and as many hours, in Will Eno’s new adaptation, “Gnit,” which opened Sunday at the ...

Qasim Khan as Peter in Gnit (Shaw Festival, 2025). Photo by Michael Cooper. Lovely Julia Course is solid and nuanced in the straight role of Peter’s great love, Solvay, and Ms. Course gets the ...

This past weekend, Stanford Theater Lab produced the existential and unorthodox “Gnit,” by Will Eno, in the courtyard between Branner and Toyon Hall. At times depressing and always absurd, this witty ...

City: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Year: Until Oct. 4 You’d be forgiven for pronouncing Gnit like “knit.” But when the play’s titular doofus, an old-enough-to-know-better man-child living in the ...

Gnit is the celebrated American playwright Will Eno's acerbically witty adaptation of the Ibsen classic Peer Gynt. Eno has reimagined that sprawling, satirical, 19th-century quest tale as a ...

TampaRep presents the Southeastern premiere of Will Eno's Gnit! Eno, hailed by the New York Times as "a Samuel Becket for the Jon Stewart generation," writes plays of depth, filled with off-beat humor ...

Will Eno’s inward-looking incarnation of “Peer Gynt” steps out of Ibsen’s shadow just as Ibsen shrugged off elements of the original fairy tale. By Maya Phillips We know the formula of the fairy tale: ...

Theatre for a New Audience launched its 2021–2022 season with the return of Will Eno's Gnit. The modern retelling of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt opened November 7 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in ...

Theatre for a New Audience returns to in-person performances October 30 with Will Eno’s Gnit, 19 months after it was shuttered just four previews into its run. The 2021–2022 season will also include ...

Theater companies often run both mainstage and second-stage seasons. Splashy chestnuts typically claim the larger space, often old-school proscenium presentation, typically crowd-pleasers, more likely ...