Auditions for Metamorphosis

The final show of this season, Death and the Maiden, starts on Monday 5th July and runs through to Saturday 10th. This is a shorter run than normal so don't miss it.

We are now holding auditions for the second production of the 2010/11 season. Metamorphosis runs from 11th to 16th October and the auditions are being held on Tuesday, 6th July, 7:30 pm at United Reformed Church, Palmer Park and Sunday, 11th July, 2:30 at Progress Theatre.  

Following her successful production of A couple of poor English-speaking Poles by Dorota Maslowska in March, directory Joanna Rogowska has again turned to an East European writer. Franz Kafka's 1915 novel starts with the famous line "When Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams one morning, he found that he had been transformed in his bed into an enormous bug."

This stage production is a modern take on the adaptation by Steven Berkoff first performed in the Roundhouse in London in 1969. The part of Gregor Samsa was played  by Berkoff himself and over the years has also been taken by, among others, Roman Polanski and Tim Roth. The production includes plenty of Berkoff's trade mark physical theatre and will be a fun one to get involved in as well as one not be missed for the audience. 

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Coming up...

Death and The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman 5 - 10 July 2010

Auditions for Metamorphosis adapted by Steven Berkoff from Franz Kafka’s novel. Tuesday, 6th July at 7:30 pm at Palmer Park (United Reformed Church, Palmer Park Avenue, Reading, RG6 1DN); Sunday, 11th July at 2:30 at Progress Theatre.


See www.progresstheatre.co.uk for details of all our productions and auditions.