Scenic

"Alan Piotrowicz’s simple but evocative set design... is an open invitation to interpretation; as with Kafka, it simultaneously repels the possibility of meaning.  Also as with Kafka and this adaptation, it suggests (through its outlined house) every family’s quixotic effort to control meaning and history.  And it suggests a screen or wall, separating the downstage Gregor from his family – and true to the way language spoken by him (and us) is inevitably thwarted, bent and corrupted before reaching its intended recipient(s)."