Coronet theatre, London
Nico Holonics is in resoundingly offbeat form as as a stunted child in a solo show that delights in making its audience squirm
‘How shall I begin?” asks Nico Holonics in this surreal adaptation of Günter Grass’s sweeping story about nazism, postwar guilt and the German psyche. Produced by the Berliner Ensemble and directed by Oliver Reese, this drama is as much concerned with storytelling as it is with the life of its central stunted character, Oskar Matzerath.
It is solely performed by Holonics as Oskar, the child who refuses to grow beyond the age of three, is cast as a freak in society and who tells us of the deaths of his mother and the two men he calls his “presumptive fathers”.
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