Zero Point Theatre Group – Savvas Stroumpos
In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka
In the year 1914, as the flames of the Great War raged, Franz Kafka penned a nightmare under the title In the penal colony. In time, the short work would be considered prophetic of horrors to come, since the tale it tells takes place in a penal colony of an unspecified time. The Convict, who does not even know what crime he has committed or what he has been sentenced to, is inserted into an instrument of torture which inscribes on his body unto death the law that has been broken. The regime that has imposed this punishment slowly dies and is replaced with another which, though it presents a more humane face, is just as barbarous.
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Duration 60 minutes (no interval)
Peiraios 260 (Warehouse)
- 18/06 until 20/06/2014 at 21:00
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