![]() Still, the fast-paced dialogue is where you have to really concentrate. McElvain’s characterisation of each is individualised so usually it’s easy to figure out who’s who. At times the multiple characters can become confusing given the quick changes. While The Chess Player is wonderful it would help if one had actually read the novella. Surviving insanity is the main theme of this play – how do you tame your mind when there is nothing to occupy it? It’s food for thought in how one would cope in that kind of circumstance, made all the more harder knowing people were – and currently are – in these conditions. After escaping the prison, the culmination sees the protagonist challenge the world’s best chess player. He nicks a book on chess tournaments, learns the game and begins to battle a second personality within himself. ![]() Slowly losing his mind he needs something to keep him sane. ![]() McElvain’s play follows a man as he is kept prisoner and interrogated by Nazis during the Second World War. ![]() The Chess Player is an adaption of Stefan Zweig’s novella called The Royal Game. Performed by Richard McElvain, the acting is impeccable which is no mean feat given he plays umpteen characters. This one-man play about a prisoner during World War II is meticulously researched and exquisitely executed. ![]()
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