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A young man moves to the big city with dreams of becoming a writer. But in this unforgiving metropolis, friends are scarce and jobs are even scarcer. Once hunger rocks the core of his reality, how can his youthful spirit – and his sanity – survive?
Hunger is Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun’s groundbreaking tale about a mind on the margins, and our universal yearning for connection.
Based on his own early experiences of poverty prior to becoming Norway’s most celebrated novelist, Hamsun’s story revolutionised the psychological novel and influenced writers from Franz Kafka to Ernest Hemingway.
This fast-paced new adaptation bursts onto the stage in a timely, world premiere production, directed by the winner of the Peter Hall Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Rose Theatre, Fay Lomas.
Critic reviews
Hunger is ambitious, but Fay Lomas’ production exists in limbo
A timely reminder of the darkness that lurks around the edges of our society and threatens to swallow any one of us
Odoom captures the decline of the protagonist with real sensitivity
Fay Lomas’s production is an empathetic and frightening look at a writer whose senses begin to turn on him as he falls into poverty
Adept and compelling adaptation, which plays too safe with its source and lacks bite
All in all HUNGER is an absorbing glimpse into a disturbed mind as it unravels
Despite a charming lead, skilful ensemble work and attractive design, Hunger never quite brings its challenging source material to life
Kwami Odoom is utterly compelling as the unnamed young man. He bristles with anxiety and ambition, veering from a meeting with a high-profile journalist to teetering on the edge of starvation
The company is generally solid, shifting between parts in a masterclass of drama school-trained accents sketch work
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