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A Transforming `Metamorphosis'

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19981020
Author:William Triplett

Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis," as translated and adapted by Steven Berkoff and staged by Washington Shakespeare Company, is like an expressionistic silent horror movie. At some points eerily cerebral and at others brutally comic, the recently opened WSC production of this highly stylized piece is deeply, painfully heartfelt. Credit Berkoff, the British stage and film actor who's also an icon among the European avant-garde, with having found the awful sadness coursing through Kafka's intellectual nightmare. But credit director Jose Carrasquillo and his cohesive cast and crew for bringing the ...

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