Eliza Clark’s 2020 debut novel Boy Parts, a brutal artworld satire-cum-thriller, is a publishing phenomenon. It has sold more than 30,000 copies in the UK and gained a huge following on TikTok, with readers posting their favourite quotes. Now it’s been turned into a stage play, adapted by Gillian Greer and starring Aimée Kelly as the wildly unreliable narrator.
Greer first encountered the novel through the audiobook, which is narrated by Clark. She was immediately struck by the theatrical potential of the story about an artist who takes explicit pictures of young men. “Irina is a frightening, delicious character who I wanted to spend more time with,” says Greer, who has distilled the book into a monologue.
