Metamorphosis (Ten Days on the Island)

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Ten Days on the Island Ticketing

$23.00 - $65.00

Friday 27 March 2009. 07:30 PM
Saturday 28 March 2009. 08:00 PM
Sunday 29 March 2009. 08:00 PM
Monday 30 March 2009. 08:00 PM
Tuesday 31 March 2009. 08:00 PM
Wednesday 01 April 2009. 08:00 PM

A theatrically explosive new version of Franz Kafka's famous short story is brought brilliantly to life by a mix of Icelandic and British creative talent.

Gísli Örn Gardarsson, (Theatre Vesturport), and David Farr's, (Lyric Hammersmith), rendering is a darkly comic and physical production -- a tale of an ordinary man whose world turns literally upside-down.

Jaw-dropping physicality, innovative design and an exquisite original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, combine to convey Kafka's haunting story of alienation and the boundaries of human compassion.

A gravity-defying, two-storied set provides the Samsa family home where a recently transformed Gregor (Gardarsson) bursts out of his respectable business suit, scuttles disconcertingly over the walls and ceiling and negotiates the steep banister headfirst.