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A Hunger Artist
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Great acting, Clever, Absorbing, Edgy, Ambitious
About the show
The Tank and Sinking Ship present this new solo adaptation of Franz Kafka's tragicomic tale about the only person who remembers a very peculiar artist. More…
A man sits alone in a cage, starving himself for your entertainment. Once cheered by thousands, the Hunger Artist is now forgotten by everyone except his one-time manager. What begins as a simple nostalgic story transforms into an inventive trip into the nature of memory, art, performance, and spectatorship. Actor, puppeteer, and Sinking Ship co-artistic director Jonathan Levin stars.
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Confusing, Dizzying, Edgy, Thought-provoking, Masterful
June 24th, 2017
See it if You like weird shit
Don't see it if You get confused easy
"Has transformed Kafka's disturbing story into a showcase for all manner of visually stunning, old-fashioned theatrics….seems content to focus on creating the bleak, creepy atmosphere without offering a clear point of view as to what Kafka was trying to say."
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“Mr. Levin is an easy raconteur, and he holds the audience in the palm of his hand in this early section of the play. But then comes an audience-participation scene, and the spell shatters…This is a 'Hunger Artist' of deliberately shifting moods, and its early humor is largely subsumed in the dar...
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"It’s hard to come away from the story unscarred. But at the Connelly Theater, where the physical-theater company Sinking Ship is presenting a surprisingly lovable version of it, any scarring is light. Josh Luxenberg’s sweetly drawn bouffon adaptation of Kafka’s parable is full of jokes and sudde...
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for a previous production
"So delightful and original is this trio's approach that I don't want to spoil it for you; safe to say that 'A Hunger Artist' begins as a riotous vaudeville and darkens by degrees as the title character descends into melancholy and squalor...One of the eerier offerings to be found on a New York s...
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