The Trial, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony
Three Theatre adaptations from Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka author Steven Berkoff editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Aurora Metro Publications
Published:31st Jan '24
Should be back in stock very soon
Revised with a new foreword which explores the approach Berkoff takes to his total theatre. talks and readings fro the plays to coincide.
The Trial, Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony adapted for the stage from Franz Kafka's stories.Three distinctive adaptations from a master of total theatre, Steven Berkoff fuses all the elements of drama together in a whole theatrical experience. Combining movement and mime with text to achieve a heightened dramatic intensity, Berkoff takes Kafka's stories and transforms them into a powerful dramatic expression of the inhumanity which plagued the twentieth century and continues unchecked today.
"Berkoff has a master's ear for vocabulary and rhythm. Everything is heightened - physically, emotionally, intellectually... There's so much to work with and draw from." - Theatre Weekly; "Throughout the play, you find yourself relating to both Gregor, as the one being isolated, but also to his family members who are the cause of that. That makes the show eerily relatable, and it's this quality that allows you to ponder the topic on a deeper level." - everything-theatre.co.uk; "The totality of alienation was stressed through the theatre of shadows. [The family's] greed and stupidity were the forces that concealed, distorted and destroyed what was essential in human nature." - Theatre Journal
- Winner of Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play 1991
ISBN: 9781738476909
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: unknown
176 pages
Revised edition