The Kafka Project by Walt Jones
Thursday, December 1, 2011, 07:30 PM
University Theatre, University Center for the Arts

A collectively-created work sampling the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, an insurance salesman from Prague who was arguably one of the most important 20th century writers, but whose works were not published until after his death.

The project will feature stagings of six major works, and entries from his diaries and letters. A Hunger Artist is a first-person monologue by a man who, as a side-show act, is starving himself to death. In A Report to an Academy, an ape tells a group of scientists why he chose to become a man. The Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours.

The centerpiece of this haunting evening is Kafka's most famous work, Metamorphosis, based on the playwright's 1915 alienation fable of the same name. In this six-legged nightmare, a traveling salesman named Gregor Samsa awakes one morning transformed into a bug.

The actor playing Gregor scrambles over walls, over furniture and down banisters without the aid of wires or harnesses, the wrenching sense of a terrified creature being drained of life as he seems to defy gravity on the out-of-kilter set filled with cleverly disguised strategic grips, trompe l’oeil and trampoline flooring.

Showtimes

• December 1-4, 7:30 p.m.
• December 8-10, 7:30 p.m.
• January 31, February 1-5, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets

• $9: CSU students
• $18: public

For tickets visit: www.CSUArtsTickets.com

Advance purchase is highly recommended to avoid at-the-door ticket fees.

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Event Contact: Jennifer Clary can be reached at (970) 491-3603

Sponsored by the School of the Arts.