Die Verwandlung

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a giant vermin. His family's compassion soon turns to alienation and aggression; the last anchors to the sphere of the human are the violin playing of his beloved sister and an erotically charged picture of a lady in fur. In the end, his death is a salvation for everyone.

Manuel Gerst brings Kafka's famous story to the stage as a happening from the event industry. References to bachelor parties and aggression reduction in the group meet action art and destruction art. Kafka's parable is read here as a story about disability, in the field of tension between being injured and being intact. The aggression towards the deformed other in the story is turned into aggression against the object on stage. In the end, it doesn't matter what position the audience takes - the dent remains the same. Let he who is without sin cast the first apple.