Ross Dinwiddy

Franz Kafka - Apparatus Ross Dinwiddy

You are cordially invited to attend a most unusual, mechanically achieved execution - death by means of a complex machine designed and constructed in a nightmare. The Traveller is only on the island for a few days, he's no fan of the brutal penal colony there, but he hopes to leave with plenty to write about. Today he's scheduled to watch a man die, but nothing has prepared him for an hour in the company of The Officer, the keeper and guardian of the hellish Apparatus. A play based on Kafka's prophetically terrifying yet darkly humorous 'In the Penal Colony' - a dramatic labyrinth of cruelty, obsession and madness.