Metamorphosis Ballet Review

Strange. Intense. Right up until the final moment of the performance Metamorphosis the audience, me included, were on the edge of our seats. Gregor, played expertly by Edward Weston, is shown as a businessman in a tedious repetitive lifestyle, and his transformation into a bug can be seen in black goo that he gets covered in.  The entire event was strange, uncomfortable, but a perfect representation of the book Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. While the performance was extremely well done, it had an interesting point of view on the novel. In the novel, we find our point of view and center of the universe is Gregor and his internal conflict, with the family problems playing as background noise; while in this showing quite the opposite is true. You see and feel for the family and find yourself with utter contempt for Gregor.


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