Montreal's Infinithéâtre presents Kafka's Ape as part of SummerWorks show poster

Montreal's Infinithéâtre presents Kafka's Ape as part of SummerWorks at Gladstone Hotel

Dates: (8/7/2014 - 8/17/2014 )

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Gladstone Hotel

1214 Queen Street West
Toronto,

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Phone: 416-907-0468

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After his capture in the African jungle, the ape Redpeter realizes his only escape route is to become a walking, talking, spitting, hard-drinking member of the "Peace Industry," the entrepreneurial world of mercenary soldiers. In his keynote address to Graywater's annual general meeting detailing the journey of his enforced evolution from Apehood to Humanhood, Mr. Redpeter embodies the irony that he is perhaps now more animalistic and less human than he ever was as a "lower" primate.

Based on Franz Kafka's short story A Report to an Academy (1917), and adapted by director Guy Sprung from the original German, Kafka's Ape upends the notion of civilization and what it means to be human in a world of routinized inhumanity. An unnerving satire on "otherness" and the compounding growth of private military companies, Kafka's Ape stars Howard Rosenstein as keynote speaker - and primate - Mr. Redpeter in a theatrical tour-de-force performance. Alexandra Montagnese enthrallingly plays the silent role of Mrs. Redpeter.

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