Gnit NYC Reviews and Tickets

82%

(41 Reviews)

Positive

98%

Mixed

Negative

Members say

Clever, Funny, Great acting, Quirky, Entertaining

About the Show

Will Eno's ("The Realistic Joneses," "The Open House") take on Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" comes to New York for the first time in this new staging at Theatre for a New Audience.

From the show:

Peter Gnit, a modern-day version of Ibsen’s heroic character Peer Gynt, is a carefree young man on a reckless search for Experience and the True Self. Armed with tales from his mother of his early greatness and his absent father, he heads out into the world. Like all true stories of human endeavor and adventure, Gnit is part horror story, part fairy tale, and part road movie. A timely reckoning with received notions of Rugged Individualism and the self-made person. Come see how it all turns out.

Packed with Eno’s signature wordplay and wit, Gnit is a sad and funny exploration of the right and the good, and, ultimately, how to live a good life.

Member Reviews (41)

Slow, Quirky, Great staging, Great acting

See it if You want a truly odd story with very dry humor and an anti hero protagonist. Great acting and staging.

Don't see it if It gets slow at times and is quirky enough to throw you if you don't go with it. If you don't like Will Eno's work don't see it.

During previews

Well-staged, Quirky, Intelligent, Funny, Philosphical

See it if you like cerebral theater; Eno's script is filled w zingers/insights. Gnit looks for selfhood all over, but by looking, he's lost it.

Don't see it if you want a tight script, GNIT wanders like its char. The action can get wearing. Still, funny/thought-provoking. Pitfalls of selfishness.