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Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

La metamorfosi di Franz Kafka-Foto: sito ufficiale del Teatro Argentina

The show, directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti is staged at the Argentina Theater and Michelangelo Dalisi, Roberto Rustioni and Sara Putignano as its main performers. Based on the famous tale The metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) by Franz Kafka, published in 1915, it has as its main theme the transformation of the traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who, one morning, wakes up in the body of a huge cockroach.

The protagonist's family reacts to this sudden change in a different way: the mother faints, the father wants to kill him while his sister is the only one who cares about him. At first she brings him food and cleans his room but, after some time, convinced that that being is no longer her brother, she turns away from him. In the show the director highlights all the discomfort of the protagonist forced to live a life that does not feel his; for years in fact Gregor's father, for no apparent reason, has stopped working forcing him to assume the role of head of the family. Gregor is no longer able to bear the pressure both work and family, he folds more and more on himself, until he takes on the appearance of an insect.

The metamorphosis is in fact a metaphor of the individual's incommunicability, isolation and alienation in contemporary society, which is more relevant than ever in a period like this. The story carries within itself a sense of oppression, marked by the typical claustrophobic atmosphere that characterizes all of Kafka's stories. The insect represents the state in which the protagonist is reduced to his own insecurities, in a progressive renunciation of his own identity plunged in a reality assuming increasingly the dimension of a nightmare, till the annihilation.

Photo credits: courtesy of Argentina Theater official site

Informations

When 
from 5 February 2022 to 27 February 2022
POINT (12.476362 41.895619)
Contacts 
Online purchase: 
https://teatrodiroma.vivaticket.it/it/event/la-metamorfosi/173646
Web site: 
www.teatrodiroma.net/doc/7471/la-metamorfosi
Timetables 

Dal 5 al 27 febbraio 2022

Prima sabato 5 febbraio ore 20.00
Martedì, venerdì e giovedì 24 febbraio ore 20.00
Mercoledì e sabato ore 19.00
Domenica ore 17.00
Lunedì riposo

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Location

La metamorfosi, Largo di Torre Argentina, 52
Largo di Torre Argentina, 52
41° 53' 44.2284" N, 12° 28' 34.9032" E

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