APRIL 28 - MAY 9

MALTHOUSE THEATRE PRESENTS A YOUNG VIC PRODUCTION

KAFKA'S MONKEY

BASED ON A REPORT TO AN ACADEMY
BY FRANZ KAFKA
ADAPTED BY COLIN TEEVAN
DIRECTED BY WALTER MEIERJOHANN
DESIGNED BY STEFFI WURSTER
COSTUME DESIGNED BY RICHARD HUDSON
LIGHTING DESIGNED BY MIKE GUNNING
MUSIC AND SOUND BY NIKOLA KODJABASHIA
MOVEMENT ILAN REICHEL

PERFORMED BY KATHRYN HUNTER

Red Peter has the world at his feet. Since taking the Variety Stage by storm, the culmination of his life’s work was realised at the very moment he was asked to address the ‘Academy.’ Now he stands, donned in his finest Top and Tails, to tell his life’s story before the greatest thinkers of the age. It is the story of how an Ape learned to ape Man.

Based on Franz Kafka’s masterful short story A Report To An Academy, this bold new production from London’s celebrated Young Vic is a luminous mix of absurdity and tenderness. Director Walter Meierjohann teams up with Irish playwright Colin Teevan, to create this new adaptation of one of the milestones of modern literature, infusing it with Weimar cabaret, dance and
stand-up comedy.

Acclaimed British actress Kathryn Hunter is renowned for her work with Théâtre de Complicité, Shared Experience, Peter Brook and Mike Leigh. She will soon take up her recent appointment as Artistic Associate at the Royal Shakespere Company. Following its Australian debut for the Sydney Theatre
Company, Malthouse Theatre is proud to welcome Kathryn Hunter to our stage in the role of a woman playing a monkey playing a man…

PRESENTED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ARTS PROJECTS AUSTRALIA

PHOTO SIMON ANNNAND PICTURED KATHRYN HUNTER