As part of our Edinburgh Fringe 2024 coverage, we are running a series of interviews with artists and creatives that are taking part in the festival.
In this interview, we speak to Franz Kafka (deceased) about Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical: With Puppets.
Can you tell me a little bit about you?
My name is Franz Kafka. I’ve worked for a number of years as an insurance clerk. In my free time, I write short stories and lots of letters and I still live with my family, which is a problem. Also, I died in 1924, and my works have become inexplicably popular and even prescient.
I’m told that this “show” is a combination of my novella “The Metamorphosis” and a letter I wrote to my father. I have extremely mixed feelings about these being presented in a theatrical format. The addition of music and puppetry is….a bold choice. I am totally okay with it and not at all anxious. Franz Kafka is cool, calm, and collected. Really.
How would you describe the style of the show?
Like every other serious and sober examination of my life and works, this show is a 60 minute musical comedy with puppets, shadow play, and more. Anyone familiar with the works of Franz Kafka will find this show simultaneously alarming and arousing- typical Franz, am I right?
How would you describe the style of the show?
Like every other serious and sober examination of my life and works, this show is a 60 minute musical comedy with puppets, shadow play, and more. Anyone familiar with the works of Franz Kafka will find this show simultaneously alarming and arousing- typical Franz, am I right?
Other than the show, what’s something you’re looking forward to doing in Edinburgh this year?
There are not one, but two shows based on my life and works at this years’ Fringe, which is a thought that is both humbling and horrifying. If you enjoy our show and are keen for more Kafka, I highly recommend seeing “Kafka’s Ape” at Summerhall. This fringe will be a veritable Kafkapalooza, full of fun, friends, and Franz.
There are not one, but two shows based on my life and works at this years’ Fringe, which is a thought that is both humbling and horrifying. If you enjoy our show and are keen for more Kafka, I highly recommend seeing “Kafka’s Ape” at Summerhall. This fringe will be a veritable Kafkapalooza, full of fun, friends, and Franz.
If you were a biscuit, what would you be and why?
I would be a beautifully decorated macaron in a brilliant pastel color, but something about me would taste strange and shameful. You’d eat me but find yourself hungrier than when you’d started and inexplicably feeling followed. Or a Kafkaesque Cream Custard, for the alliteration. Either way.
I would be a beautifully decorated macaron in a brilliant pastel color, but something about me would taste strange and shameful. You’d eat me but find yourself hungrier than when you’d started and inexplicably feeling followed. Or a Kafkaesque Cream Custard, for the alliteration. Either way.
Could you describe the show in 5 words?
Surreal. Silly. Smart. Strange. Scrupulous?
Surreal. Silly. Smart. Strange. Scrupulous?
What do you hope an audience takes away from seeing the show?
The alchemic transmutation of my novella and personal letters into a puppet musical is easily the strangest thing that’s ever happened to me. This production has been performed in New York, Montréal, Washington D.C. and boasts an award-winning team of artists and designers working hard over several years to bring this abomination to its inexplicable fruition. Your 21st century is baffling to me. If you’d like to learn more about the guy who made “Kafkaesque” a thing before everyone was actively living and breathing it, they should come see this show. Plus, puppets.
The alchemic transmutation of my novella and personal letters into a puppet musical is easily the strangest thing that’s ever happened to me. This production has been performed in New York, Montréal, Washington D.C. and boasts an award-winning team of artists and designers working hard over several years to bring this abomination to its inexplicable fruition. Your 21st century is baffling to me. If you’d like to learn more about the guy who made “Kafkaesque” a thing before everyone was actively living and breathing it, they should come see this show. Plus, puppets.
Where can audiences see the show?
Pleasance Dome (Acedome) daily at 13:30 from July 31- August 26.
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/kafka-s-metamorphosis-the-musical-with-puppets
Pleasance Dome (Acedome) daily at 13:30 from July 31- August 26.
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/kafka-s-metamorphosis-the-musical-with-puppets
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