Kafka’s Monkey
- By:
- based on A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka, adapted by Colin Teevan
- Management:
- Young Vic
- Cast:
- Kathryn Hunter
- Director:
- Walter Meierjohann
- Design:
- Steffi Wurster
- Sound:
- Nikola Kodjabashia
- Lighting:
- Mike Gunning
- Costumes:
- Richard Hudson
- Choreography:
- Ilan Reichel
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Kathryn Hunter's arms dangle at simian angles - they seem to be hinged differently to most people's. Her posture, her stride, her facial expression - all convey a trace of the ape. Hunter plays Red Peter, a monkey who has learned to behave like a man, mainly through learning to spit and embracing the rum bottle. Based on the Kafka short story, A Report to an Academy, the piece is delivered in the form of a lecture, with Hunter awkwardly stuffed into tail coat and white gloves, occasionally loping into the audience to shake a hand or pick a choice morsel from someone's head...
Run sheet
- Theatre Royal Winchester
- April 25-28
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