In the Penal Colony - review by Michael Billington

Young Vic, LondonThe Palestinian theatre company ShiberHur made a big impact last year with I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother. Now it is back with an hour-long version of Kafka's 1916 short story, adapted and directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi. Where the earlier play was a raw, moving lament for a lost Palestine, this is a well-honed, more literary piece about torture and injustice: one that would, I suspect, have even mor…

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