"Black Lives Trapped in a Reimagined ‘Penal Colony.’ Miranda Haymon’s play relocates Kafka’s horrific tale of punishment to a contemporary world where African-American men are expendable entertainment."
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"Franz Kafka's 'In the Penal Colony' is the ambitious inspiration for New York Theatre Workshop's latest release."
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"The questions Haymon raises are vitally important ones, but this may not be the right format for them…Kafka imagined a machine in which written laws tear into a person's flesh. Her version of 'In the Penal Colony' doesn't offer anything nearly as terrifying as that."
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"It's debatable whether Haymon really even needed the frame of Kafka's story on which to hang her ideas. It's a somewhat uneasy matchup. Kafka's work, like Haymon's, certainly deals with power and punishment and a failure of the justice system. However, the story has a very European sensibility."
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