Full tour dates and further creative team announced for Frantic Assembly’s METAMORPHOSIS

Full tour dates have been announced for Frantic Assembly’s new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a collaboration between internationally celebrated poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay OBE and Frantic Assembly’s artistic director Scott Graham. 

The new production will premiere at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 12–16 September, before visiting Curve Theatre Leicester (19 – 23 September), MAST Mayflower Studios Southampton (26 – 30 September), Connaught Theatre Worthing (3 – 7  October), York Theatre Royal (10 – 14 October), Liverpool Playhouse (17 – 21  October), Northern Stage Newcastle (24 – 28  October), Mercury Theatre Colchester (7 – 11  November), The Lowry Salford Quays (14 – 18  November), Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford  (21 – 25  November), Bristol Old Vic (10-20 January 2024), Belgrade Theatre Coventry (23 – 27 January 2024) and a four week run at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre from 1 February – 2 March 2024.

Further creative team are also today announced. Metamorphosis will be adapted by Lemn Sissay, directed by Scott Graham, designed by Jon Bausor, with video design by Ian William Galloway, music composed by Stefan Janik, sound design by Helen Skiera. and casting by Will Burton CDG. More creatives will be announced soon.

Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a powerful and vital depiction of humans struggling within a system that crushes them under its heel.  Gregor Samsa finds himself transformed from bread winner into burden in this absurd and tragic story.  Frantic Assembly are renowned for their use of physicality and movement and Metamorphosis will be an inherently visceral production about the limitations of the body and the mind, of imagination and aspiration. All of this, coupled with the fluidity and lyricism of Lemn Sissay’s adaptation, promises an exciting and dynamic show.

Metamorphosis sits aside Frantic Assembly’s Othello as the second production in their Iconic strand of work. Iconic sees the company take on titles that bring with them so much history and baggage, love and opinion and create vital, thrilling contemporary theatre.

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