By FRANZ KAFKA
Adapted for the stage and directed by MIRKO RAJAS (Turku Arts Academy, Finland)
Designed by KALJU KARL KIVI (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Music by EKKE VÄSTRIK (Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn University, Estonia)
Choreography by OLGA PRIVIS (Russian Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia)
Translated by AUGUST SANG
Gregor Samsa works as a travelling salesman in order to provide money for his sister and parents. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. In the performance we see what happens when Gregor is unable to work and exchanges roles with his family by becoming the parasite who needs care from the others.
Cast:
Gregor – MART MÜÜRISEPP
Grete, his sister – KATARIINA TAMM
Father – RIHO ROSBERG
Mother – TIINA TÕNIS
Manager – ANTI KOBIN
Premiere: 9 October 2011, Köismäe Tower, Tallinn, Estonia
For the youth and adults
The Metamorphosis is the final work in the Bachelor’s degree of Mirko Rajas, a student of puppet art at the Turku Arts Academy in Finland. His tutors were Ari Ahlholm and Anna Ivanova-Brashinskaya.
