Tartu Student Theatre
Ameerika
It is a two-act schizoclown based on Franz Kafka's unfinished novel "Ameerika".
Dramatization, production and musical design: Kalev Kudu
Artist: Silver Vahtre
Choreographer: Jaanika Tammaru (Must Kast Theatre)
Lighting designer: Enor Niinemägi and Kristjan Tammi
On stage:
Claus Mootse as Karl Rossmann
In other roles: Merilin Jürjo, Annabel Berg, Tess Pauskar, Indrek Tulp or Sven Paulus, Andreas Aimse, Oleg Želudkov, Mart Alaru, and Kalev Kudu.
Warning: the production uses foul language and loud music.
Tartu Student Theatre presents a new production “America”.
The work is also known as “The Man Who Disappeared..”
This is a two-act schizoclown based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel “America”.
The servant girl Johanna Brummer seduces (read: rapes) the young schoolboy Karl Rossmann and has a child with him. When his parents find out about this, they send Karl away from home, as far away as possible, to the new world, America. Rossmann’s rich American uncle is waiting for him at the New York immigration office, who promises Karl a brilliant career in America. However, Karl’s “career” ends quickly and the young man’s adventures in search of his place (read: happiness) in the American Machine begin.
The production asks whether an individual has the opportunity to avoid traps – machines – and somehow remain free in an increasingly globalized world?
