The drama at the Teatro India directed by Luca Marinelli, with Fabian Jung in the leading role, stages the famous story by Franz Kafka, in which the writer gives voice to a monkey, making it the emblem of an important reflection on freedom.
First published in a literary magazine in 1917 together with another of his stories, and then again in 1919 in a volume in the collection entitled A Country Doctor, this short story has as its protagonist Rot Peter, a monkey who is captured while he is with his pack and is wounded by two bullets. During his captivity, Peter understands that he can imitate humans very well and thus guarantee his freedom; after five years, therefore, the anthropologists find themselves listening to the monkey Rot Peter transformed into an academic speaker. Peter's dissertation is amused and detached but, at the same time, permeated with melancholy, anger and accusation: his "metamorphosis" is in fact for him more of a defeat than a benefit.
Kafka's text deals in grotesque and metaphorical terms with the condition of those who are forced to live an existence that does not belong to them in order to conform to the rules of bourgeois society and thus find a form of freedom: as Peter himself narrates during the relationship, in fact, it was not the search for liberation alone that suggested the solution, but necessity.
Photo credits: Anna Faragona
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