Metamorphosis - Paperback

Metamorphosis for the theatre: this is the playscript of Kafka's story, not the novella itself, created for a 2006 London stage production.

David Farr wrote it with an actor and director from Iceland's Vesturport Theatre, and the script was published alongside their staging at the Lyric Hammersmith.

Who picks up a script

Drama students, directors weighing a production, and Kafka readers curious how Gregor's transformation plays in front of an audience. The publisher pitches it as frightening and oddly funny at once.

From the publisher

Here is Franz Kafka's terrifying but bizarrely comic story in a theatrically explosive new version. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned into a six-legged nightmare when their son Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. As revulsion turns to resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family.