Characters
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Joseph K |
Inspector |
Investigating Magistrate |
Accused |
Counselor |
Titorelli |
The other JK |
Mrs Grubach |
Miss Bürstner |
Miss Montag |
Washerwoman |
Leni |
Willem |
Berthold |
Franz |
Usher |
Assistant Director |
Uncle |
Manufacturer |
Block |
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Act
1, Scene 1
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Joseph
(about to move a bedside table, puts it down again) Oh,
God! |
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Miss Bürstner
(enters) Who are you? What's going on here? |
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Joseph |
Joseph K, miss, I sleep in
the room next door. |
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Miss B |
Oh
yes, mister K, I recognize you.
What are you doing in my room? |
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Joseph |
I can explain everything. |
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Miss B |
I was almost frightened by you! |
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Joseph |
I'm so sorry. Let me explain,
then.
(he picks the bedside table up again and moves it) |
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Miss B |
My bedside table! I beg your pardon! |
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Joseph |
I'm not the one who moved it.
Or, rather, yes. It was because of me, but against my will. See,
I was here, and there was the inspector, and then the others.
Do you understand? |
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Miss B |
Of course not. |
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Joseph |
Well, I've been arrested. |
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Miss B |
And who, may I ask, has arrested you? |
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Joseph |
Joseph K, they called, as if
to wake me up. |
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Miss B |
Don't shout
like that, please! Sit down. Let's start from the beginning. For
now, all I know is that you have been brought to trial. |
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Joseph |
A trial, yes, it must be that,
there were two men dressed in black, I also had a black suit,
it was necessary, you know, to go there, into the next room...
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Apart from a few critical exercises
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or formative experiences,
I am not tied to prose theatre in a traditional sense: the
Trial however, is one of these.
I prefer to build the text in function of other elements, principally
music, but also the figure, so they may live in a tight relationship
with the words.
It was on the stage of the Salone Pier Lombardo, now Teatro Franco
Parenti, that I was able to realize
a form of theatre in which
I could combine in equal measure literary fragments, music, visual
and gestural allusions.
Dalla
sabbia dal Tempo
Dybbuk
To the same Theatre I associate other minor
but all the same significant creative moments.
Trieste, viaggio nell'inconscio
Variété |
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This stage version of Franz Kafka’s
novel was intended
for actor Franco Parenti in a “multiple” interpretation
(six roles),
who had wanted it and appreciated it.
Dramaturgy with a target, therefore,
faithful to the linear structure of the story,
even through a very personal point of view.
Andrée Shammah's production,
tragically deprived of its main actor,
included only a few scenes from the original dramaturgy.
A future realization is not ruled out, though. |
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