It’s been described as the best horror story ever written, and its influence can be found in popular culture from video games to the Rolling Stones’ 1975 album, Metamorphosis, which comes with a cover in which the bands’ human features have been replaced by bug heads. Confined to his room, Gregor becomes completely reliant on the family that once relied on him. Everyone thinks they know Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella, Metamorphosis, which tells of Gregor Samsa, a weary travelling salesman and sole breadwinner in his debt-ridden family, who wakes up one morning to find that he has been turned into a giant beetle. In 2019, when actor, writer and director Fraser Ayres suggested to Scott Graham, the artistic director of Frantic Assembly- one of the most iconic and collaborative British theatre companies of the last 30 years- that he might like to stage a version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, his initial response was a resounding “No.” “Why would I want to go anywhere near it? It comes with so much baggage and so much expectation,” he says. Lyn Gardner spoke to Scott Graham and Lemn Sissay about their new production of Kafka's Metamorphosis, opening at Liverpool Playhouse on Tue 17 Oct to Sat 21 Oct - click here for the performance diary.
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