Cut Kafka! (2018) by Dance Company (Singapore) & Nine Years Theatre

Presented in Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts 2018, Cut Kafka! is a collaborative work between Dance Company () and Nine Years Theatre (NYT), inspired by Franz Kafka’s life and works. The world that they came up on stage is a space which can be imagined as a writer’s mind. The writer, may or may not, be Franz Kafka, various themes are dissected and examined in this mind space, and what unfolds can be described as the performers dreaming about the writer, as well as the writer writing about them. “The tremendous world that I have inside my head. But how to free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces that retain it in me or bury it. That is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.“ -Franz Kafka, 21 Jun 1913. The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-113. Co-Director/ Choreographer Set and Costume Conceptualisation: Kuik Swee Boon Co-Director/ Choreographer Set and Costume Conceptualisation: Nelson Chia Lighting and Spatial Designer: Adrian Tan M