"When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." Franz Kafka's classic begins with this radical statement. Together with Lithuanian theater maker Kamilė Gudmonaitė, seven players between the ages of 22 and 68 explore Kafka's story "The Metamorphosis". At the heart of this dialogical exploration is the experience of alienation that arises when one's own perception of the body does not correspond to external reality - when the body is perceived as monstrous or inappropriate.
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