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Jun.18.2011 Kafka Takes To The Stage at Berkeley, California Review: Aurora Theatre delivers gripping, disturbing version of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'By Karen D'Souza Franz Kafka goes back to the future in the Aurora Theatre Company's creepy '50s incarnation of "Metamorphosis." Wildly innovative director Mark Jackson,...	Jun.16.2011 Kafka High Notes In Dallas Cycle For Soprano And Violin Classical MusicMusic Review: Hungarian Masterwork Proves Perfect Capstone to Magnificent First Season of Soundings by WAYNE LEE GAY Over the past century, Hungary has produced a disproportionate share of the world’s great music. Saturday night, Gyorgy Kurtag, the reigning scion of the...
Jun.12.2011 Kafka Takes On San Francisco Kafka Mark Jackson takes on 'Metamorphosis' Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theater Critic "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into ..." Right, that's the opening of Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis," the unobtrusive 1915 short story...	Jun.10.2011 If You Are In London Town - Last Weekend For Kafka's Monkey At Young Vic Kathryn Hunter, an actress best known for Shakespeare roles such as Cleopatra and a female King Lear, is cast as an ape in ``Kafka's Monkey.'' The play is coming to the end of its run at London's Young Vic theater. Photograph: Keith Pattison/ Young Vic via Bloomberg. http://www....
Jun.05.2011 Even Though Tone Deaf, Kafka Would Approve Hilliard Ensemble's postmodern performance at National Theater Courtesy Photo Appearing as part of Prague Spring, the Hilliard Ensemble, four British singers specializing in early vocal music, are putting their exquisite talents to a decidedly postmodern performance in I Went to...	Jun.04.2011 Kafka Adapted To The Stage In Hindi On stage this summer...by Namya Sinha, Hindustan TimesThere is not much one can do in the summer, but theatre aficionados have a reason to cheer, as the National School of Drama (NSD) hosts its annual Summer Theatre Festival 2011. All the plays are in Hindi and each one of them is being...
Jun.03.2011 Kafka's "The Trial" Comic Takes On Israel's Knesset (Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.)The Trial” — Eli Valley’s first comic as the Forward’s artist in residence — is a Kafka-Knesset mashup. The arc of the story and the narration in each of the panels are taken directly from Franz Kafka’s classic novel “The Trial,” about a...	May.28.2011 Kafka Has A Monkey On His Back At The Young Vic Kafka’s Monkey at the Young Vic It is tempting to emerge from a play which finishes within the hour and feel slightly cheated. Photo by Keith Pattison by Alice Dickerson Yet the humour and energy with which Kathryn Hunter plays Red Peter, Kafka's monkey-turned-human, more than...
May.21.2011 Kafka Is The Cat's Meow THE MEOWMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook Book Trailer You have to watch the trailer for Quirk’s latest mash-up, THE MEOWMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook, it’s a lot of fun and definitely one of the best book trailers I’ve seen. Enjoy! Synopsis: Gregor Samsa is a humble...	May.18.2011 Kafka Adapted As "Psychotic-Paranoid" Music By Wolfgang Voigt Wolfgang Voigt Creates Psychotic-Paranoid ‘Kafkatrax’ By DJ Pangburn The founder of Kompakt Records returns with a release built around the voices of a Kafka audiobook. Wolfgang Voigt is a busy man. He’s released music in the guise of over two dozen names, though most famously and...

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