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`Trial' adaptation judged inferior.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20030923
Author:Royce, Graydon

Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer

Franz Kafka's work has confounded English majors and cocktail-partygoers for decades. Filled with anxiety and alienation, his stories create nightmarish realities that invite interpretation.

Playwright Steven Berkoff has twice adapted Kafka for the stage, with mixed results. "The Metamorphosis" had a brief run on Broadway in 1989, succeeding primarily because of Mikhail Baryshnikov's physical acuity for portraying a man who changes into a dung beetle. Kafka's larger work, "The Trial," lacks that catchy singular image, and Berkoff's ...

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