Now Kafka's Letters Take The London Stage
Kafka's novels and short stories have been adapted to the stage, to the screen, to dance and even to the ice. Kafka has turned into photographs, art instillations and T shirts (I've owned four of those). But I have not heard (not that it might not have already happened) of his letters taking their turn across the boards - except for his Letter To My Father. I would take the guess that Kafka's epistolary output is double all his creative work, so there is a wide seam to mine.
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Your Letter, At Last by theatre re at Tristan Bates Theatre
Theatre re presents Your Letter, At Last conceived by Guillaume Pige, at the Tristan Bates Theatre, in Covent Garden, central London, from 28 Feb to 5 March 2011.
Physical piece inspired by literary works such as The Chinese Letters by Ying Chen, Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka and A river Merchant's wife: a letter by Ezra Pound.
Through the love letters he sends home to his fiance Moon, traces the story of Gabriel; a young man living the life of a foreigner in Montreal. The show explores the meaning of home for those who have left it and how madness slowly takes over nostalgia.
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I owe my life to Hitler, though I never met the man. My father was paid to stop Hitler, so there is no conflict of interest. I was given a thunk on the back o' the head by God when I was fifteen, and within a week began to write. I haven't stopped. My first...
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