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Apr.28.2013
Absurd - of course not. As is proved time and again, year after  year, Kafka's works  - and his world view -  are adapted with aplomb to stage and musical. Generally it is his two major works, The Trial and Metamorphosis, which make the transition.   This production of...
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Apr.09.2013
If what goes around comes around, then performing an adaptation of Kafka's The Trial in a former INS building will leave the muses spinning. This small theatre occupies the space where people once swore their citizenship allegiance. It is also beneath the cells where those of questionable...
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Mar.16.2012
But then, it seems that Kafka inspires a number of bizarre interpretations. Why anyone thinks that Kafka is bizarre is itself odd. He just looks at reality with a certain penetrating depth.             * * * * * * * * * * * * * *     András Vinnai - Viktor...
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Mar.13.2012
Kafka was no atheist but I think one would be hard pressed to conclude that he had much faith, either.  I don't agree with this article that Kafka was constantly seeking the road to redemption. I believe The Trial was far more external than internal. Kafka was more a prophet himself...
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Feb.14.2012
You can't win them all - Kafka would be the first to tell you this.   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Review: The Trial, Brunton Theatre  Blackeyed Theatres production of The Trial By JAMES T HARDING    STEVEN Berkoff’s The Trial is one of his earliest works, part of a series...
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Jan.07.2012
There is a flood of Kafka adaptations being put on stage - and all over the world. Great stuff, say I. Kafka liked Italy and took a number of vacations there. I don't think he ever got to Rome.   Franz Kafka Photo: REX FEATURES * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *     Kafka's Trial at...
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Oct.02.2011
  The Trial of Judith K. opens Theatre at UBC’s 2011/12 season   By Rhys Edwards     Theatre at UBC will open its fall/winter season on Thursday with The Trial of Judith K. Based on Franz Kafka’s infamous existentialist tale, Judith is a dark comedy about a...
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Jul.29.2011
  Narendra Kumar Designer Narendra Kumar keeps it realby Priyadarshini Nandy As fashion designers, we have a responsibility; we owe to ourselves and the people to highlight on what’s real. There is no point in living in a world of fantasy when the country is changing this rapidly, is there?” asks...
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Apr.26.2011
 How Guantánamo Bay became Kafkas's trialThe WikiLeaks files story of one detainee, Abdullah Kafkas, reveals the extrajudicial phantasmagoria of Guantánamo Bayby Pratap Chatterjee The Guantánamo Bay files spell out the Americans' suspicions about individual detainees' involvement with terrorism,...
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Apr.26.2011
 How Guantánamo Bay became Kafkas's trialThe WikiLeaks files story of one detainee, Abdullah Kafkas, reveals the extrajudicial phantasmagoria of Guantánamo Bayby Pratap Chatterjee The Guantánamo Bay files spell out the Americans' suspicions about individual detainees' involvement with terrorism,...