UPCOMING PROJECTS
Kafka’s Monkey returns to Tinworks
“Esteemed members of the Academy! You have done me the great honor of inviting me to give you an account of my former life as an ape.”
Kafka’s Monkey, a theatrical adaptation of Franz Kafka’s A Report to An Academy, is a daring, one-woman performance that touches on themes of origin, autonomy, and collective responsibility. The protagonist asserts she has evolved from ape to man in five short years in order to survive.
While grounded in the world of 1917, the play highlights questions of body autonomy. It asks, how does a person survive under increasingly constrictive conditions? What parts of ourselves do we give up to survive? What does freedom truly mean if one being’s freedom is at the expense of another’s?