For the millions of readers held rapt by Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 novel, about a woman who falls in love with a time traveller, this might feel like a trip back in time. But alongside the safety of adapting a bestseller on stage, there is a degree of chutzpah in theatrically realising a romance with a dizzying temporal complexity and non-chronological narrative.
Due to a rare genetic disorder, Henry (David Hunter) zigzags through time, involuntarily leaving his present to be landed in the future or past. He seeks out Clare (Joanna Woodward) in these forays, from her childhood to the moment he asks her to marry him and beyond, with disappearing acts in between.
