Metamorphosis
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 30, 2010
Closed Dec 5, 2010
Opened Nov 30, 2010
Closed Dec 5, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 20min.
1hr. 20min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival
US Premiere
Artist Talk with Gísli Örn Gardarsson and collaborators: Dec 2, post-show (free for same-day ticket holders)
A six-legged nightmare by Franz Kafka
Vesturport Theatre / Lyric Hammersmith
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Adapted and directed by David Farr and Gísli Örn Gardarsson
You wake up one morning to discover that you've turned into a giant bug. It's the stuff of nightmares, unless you're Kafka's oddly placid Gregor Samsa--more concerned about being late to work than anything else. Iceland's Vesturport Theatre and its fearless director Gísli Örn Gardarsson (who made their US debut with Woyzeck at the 2008 Next Wave Festival) present a topsy-turvy stage adaptation of Metamorphosis, whose protagonist leaps, scrambles, and skitters, telegraphing his mounting despair.
Performed in English.
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Franz Kafka's
Metamorphosis, the scarifying allegory in which traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to discover he's a giant insect, has been interpreted any number of ways for the stage. Now, Iceland's Vesturport Theatre in collaboration with London's Lyric Hammersmith has sent a new treatment to BAM.
While audience members totally new to the tale won't notice anything amiss -- and might even derive unalloyed pleasure from the theatrically macabre 80-minute proceedings -- Kafka partisans are likely to sense something off from the outset.
Kafka's tale starts with Samsa awakening and trying to figure out what's happened to him overnight, but this isn't how adapter-directo[...]