Gideon Lester gives Franz Kafka's unfinished fantasy takes final form at ART.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20050614
Author:Byrne, Terry

Byline: Terry Byrne

The perversely funny but macabre world of Franz Kafka explodes in readers' imaginations.

A man transformed into an insect; K's frustrating attempt to enter a castle; Joseph K's powerlessness in his own trial; all of Kafka's stories feed on insecurities, but can the demons of imagination become real on stage? American Repertory Theatre Associate Artistic Director Gideon Lester makes his first foray into adaptation with "Amerika," Kafka's unfinished novel of immigration and identity, which opens at the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday.

"We're trying to ...

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