“One morning, as Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin…” At first, the young traveling salesman perceives the horrifying and fantastical metamorphosis of his body as an opportunity to escape his tormenting fears, meaningless obligations, and feelings of guilt. But soon, the beetle is deemed unbearable by his family, until he succumbs to their endless humiliation and degradation. A play based on Kafka’s world-famous novella, which the admirer of Goethe wrote within three weeks in the year of his visit to Weimar in 1912.