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Franz kafka classic is re-bjorn at the Royal

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From: Plymouth Evening Herald, The
Date: 20080227
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The highly-acclaimed production of Franz Kafka's darkly comic and moving Metamorphosis opens at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on Tuesday, March 11 for four nights.

Kafka's eerie and fantastical story, retold by the Lyric Hammersmith's Artistic Director David Farr and Vesturport Theatre's Gisli rn Gardarsson, sees the unremarkable life of the Samsas turned upside down when their son, Gregor, emerges one morning inexplicably transformed into a monstrous insect.

As revulsion turns to resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family.

Kafka's dark story is combined with daring aerial ...

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