‘What is Solaris?’: sci-fi classic gets gender-flipped for mainstage adaptation

David Greig and Matthew Lutton take on the somewhat impregnable cult story, which premieres in Australia before transferring to ScotlandIt’s the lure of the unknowable that drew the Australian stage director Matthew Lutton and the Scottish writer David Greig into the inscrutable alien world of Solaris.The thin, cultish 1961 novel by the Polish author Stanislaw Lem reached beyond its sci-fi audience when it was adapted for the screen – first as a Soviet television play in 1968, and mo