Metamorphosis

One morning Gregor Samsa awakes to find himself changed. To those around him he is dangerous, untouchable vermin. Worse than that, he is a burden. In their first new commission since 2019, Frantic Assembly and Lemn Sissay OBE collaborate on this thrilling new version of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis.

We worked with Frantic to devise a series of messages, realising the pressures and strains Gregor is under and that lead to his eventual transformation, and with the production team on ghostly visual illusions, conjuring shadows and silhouettes where there were none.

“Jon Bauser’s set design, accompanied by the video design by Ian William Galloway, creates a definite sense of foreboding from the outset – walls of tightly pulled vellum between the architrave and floor create the shape of the bedroom, and this one set piece becomes the prison of Gregor, with projections supplementing the shadows cast across them.”

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CREDITS

Video Designer: Ian William Galloway

Associate Video Designer: Jachym Bouzek

Video Programmer: Nicholas Ward

Writer/Adaptor: Lemn Sissay

Director: Scott Graham

Set Design: Jon Bausor

Sound Design: Helen Skiera

Lighting Design: Simsola Oluwotosin

Costume Design: Becky Gunstone

Composer: Stefan Janik

CLIENT

Frantic Assembly

LOCATION

Touring, UK

SERVICES

Video & Projection Design

Content Creation