The starting point for ¡°Dr. Hoffmann¡¯s Sanatorium¡± was, according to the play¡¯s Japanese creator, Keralino Sandorovich, ¡°The idea that someone found an unpublished novel by the great Franz Kafka.¡±
That explanation, of course, refers to the Prague-born author whose works are filled with themes of all-consuming paranoia and nonsensical oppression ¡ª as signaled by the sentence that starts ¡°The Metamorphosis,¡± his 1915 novella: ¡°When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.¡±
It¡¯s perhaps not the sort of thing everyone would find inspirational, but for Sandorovich, an award-winning playwright, and theater and film director, this latest production marks his third foray into Kafka¡¯s life and works.
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