Metamorphosis, currently having its premiere, November 20-December 4, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the Harvey Theater is naturally based on the story by Franz Kafka about a man who wakes up one morning to find he has become a cockroach and whose only worry (at that point) is how he can get to work The story progresses then to what happens to the family and to Gregor. It's a metaphor and one can spend years discussing what it means. It is also fascinating even though the story is so well known.
The company is composed of Icelandic and British actors and other members and something called the Knee High Theater. The set is of two levels, a conventional first floor for a conventional family and a second floor hallway with a bedroom turned on its side so that we are looking into the room through the ceiling. Gisli Orn Gardason is Gregor Samsa in a marvelously physical performance as he moves around the room in his cockroach state.
This is a wonderful evening of theater. Highly recommended.
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