By Anita Foxall. “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect,” is the first line in Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Frantic Assembly brought their fantastic stage adaptation (written by poet Lemn Sissay) to the MAST, and they took...
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Preview: Metamorphosis, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
Following Frantic Assembly’s sell-out visit in 2022 with Othello, the company return to MAST Mayflower Studios from Tuesday 26 to Saturday 30 September. Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a powerful and vital depiction of humans struggling within a system that crushes them under its heel. Gregor Samsa finds himself transformed...
MAST Mayflower Studios to co-produce Frantic Assembly and Lemn Sissay’s Metamorphosis
MAST Mayflower Studios will be co-producing Frantic Assembly’s collaboration with Lemn Sissay OBE on a new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s shocking tale of cruelty and kindness, Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is an inherently visceral production about the limitations of the body and the mind, of imagination and aspiration. It has a...