Metamorphosis

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A six-legged nightmare by Franz Kafka. Kafkas terrifying but bizarrely comic storyin a theatrically explosive new version. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned upside down when their son, Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. As revulsion turns to resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family Published in collaboration with the 2006 production at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, by Artistic Director David Farr with actor/director Gsli rn Gardarsson of Icelands acclaimed Vesturport Theatre.

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David Farr is a playwright, screenwriter and stage director, whose plays have been performed all over the world. He became Artistic Director of London's Gate Theatre in 1995, then at the Bristol Old Vic in 2002, London's Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 2005, then Associate Director of the RSC in 2009. In recent years, he has moved into film and television, working on the long-running BBC show Spooks and completing his first feature film, Hanna, for Focus Features in 2009.