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Venue	King's Theatre
Town	Edinburgh
County	Edinburgh
From	10th August 2013
To	12th August 2013
King's Theatre (V601)
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Date of change: 12 Aug 13 - T1118095243

Metamorphosis

Work:: Metamorphosis (S4215)

Gregor Samsa is a travelling salesman until, that is, the day he wakes up as a gigantic insect.

Book by

Franz Kafka

Production:: (T1118095243)

World Premiere. Following his acclaimed one-man production of Shakespeare's King lear during Festival 2011, Contemporary Legend Theatre's Wu Hsing-kuo returns with a mesmerising deconstruction of Franz Kafka's seminal novella. Through poetry, music and live interplay with video projections, Wu showcases the spectacular techniques, colour and flair of traditional Peking Opera to transport Kafka's early 20th-century tale of disaffection, anxiety, solitude and loneliness from industrial Europe to a fantasy world laced with the beauty of ancient Eastern cultures. Performed in Mandarin with English supertitles.

Adapted by	Wu Hsing-Kuo
Translation	Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei
Company	Contemporary Legend Theatre
Director	Wu Hsing-Kuo
Design	Lin Keh-Hua
Lighting	Kao I-Hua
Costume	Sara Lai
Music	Wang I-Yu
Musical Director	Ye Chun-ming
Performer	Kao Yu-Ching
Performer	Liang Chia-Ning
Performer	Chou Yen-Hua
Performer	Ye Chun-Ming
Performer	Chang Feng-Yueh
Performer	Chung Pei-Jung
Performer	Liu Chia-Pei
Performer	Kuo Min-Chin
Performer	Chen Ching-Tsung
Performer	Lu Yung-Hui

Listing:: L226465266

Production details

World Premiere. Following his acclaimed one-man production of Shakespeare's King lear during Festival 2011, Contemporary Legend Theatre's Wu Hsing-kuo returns with a mesmerising deconstruction of Franz Kafka's seminal novella. Through poetry, music and live interplay with video projections, Wu showcases the spectacular techniques, colour and flair of traditional Peking Opera to transport Kafka's early 20th-century tale of disaffection, anxiety, solitude and loneliness from industrial Europe to a fantasy world laced with the beauty of ancient Eastern cultures. Performed in Mandarin with English supertitles.

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