"Amerika, or The Disappearance": Theatre de la Jeune Lune/American Repertory Theatre.(PRODUCTION NOTEBOOK)
American Theatre, March, 2006 by Daniel, Michal
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Dominique Serrand, DIRECTOR, SET AND VIDEO EDSIGNER, CO-ADAPTER: Kafka wrote his novel Amerika in the very early age of cinema--when celluloid was replacing narrative. Kafka was very aware of Charlie Chaplin--the novel is dark with laughter. Karl, the young journeyman of Kafka's fictional Amerika, reminds me of Buster Keaton in Beckett's movie Film, a vaudevillian tragedy set in an urban no-man's-land.
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