New York City
The (New) Trial
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The (New) Trial is a radical version of The New Trial by Peter Weiss (1916-1982), adapted and directed by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li. The play experiments with identity and power-relations, presenting a surreal look at the life of K, the chief attorney in an international corporation. The play explores K’s obsessive idealism and his self-destructive methodology in helping others. Confined in his own docile body, K is manipulated as the public mask for the corporation to win the “war” over current global market expansion and eventually is abandoned by the corporation once the victory is obtained.
Performances begin: May 23, 2024