Metamorphosis

Imagine waking up one morning with your body looking different and strange. And you do feel strange. And you do speak strangely. Eventually, suddenly you are not understood at all. While looking at you, people around seem to be so puzzled that they themselves appear anomalous. Things that were normal just yesterday are suddenly distorted, dislocated, perhaps even monstrous. Has it always been like this and you just haven’t noticed it until now? Or did something truly peculiar happen overnight? And how can you get out of it? What sense could you make of the situation? And with whom could you share it? With your mother? With your father? With your sister?  After all, you are quite a weird bug! We invite you to visit an extraordinary, or perhaps on the contrary to quite an ordinary, room, where you can ask these questions alongside our protagonist. Just don’t expect any answers from him. He’s abnormal. 

“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.“ One of the most famous opening lines in world literature introduces both Franz Kafka’s legendary novella, The Metamorphosis, and the Drak Theatre’s stage adaptation of this novella. But what does this line actually mean? Is it merely a product of the writer’s imagination? That writer who passed away a hundred year ago? Or is it an experience that could happen to anyone? Or does it have to happen to everyone? 

The performance, intended for audiences aged 13 and up, is part of the international European project 3Place: Performing arts as the Third Place for the young audience, in which Drak Theatre collaborates with colleagues from the German theatre Junges Ensemble Stuttgart and the Norwegian production organisation Norsk Scenekunstbruket. 

The music used in the performance is licensed through OSA.

Pomalu v revolver se ztrácí víra (Mišík Vladimír, Hrubý Jan, Gellner František)