“ As the sixteen-year-old Karl Rossmann, sent to America by his poor parents because a maid had seduced him and had had a child by him, was sailing into New York Harbour on board the gradually slowing ship, he caught sight again of the Statue of the Goddess of Liberty, which appeared to be lit up by a burst of sunshine.“ In his novel, Kafka writes about displacement, social decline in the foreign country, and the longing for Heimat (home). Today, it might be more relevant than ever before. You might not like Kafka, but even so, you may want to give his novel, Amerika, a second read. On the night of the show, Ellwood booked a babysitter to watch one Thalia while he watched the other one! Our esteemed colleague, Ellwood Wiggins, likes the preeminent theater of Hamburg so much that one of his daughters shares its name: Thalia. Have you been missing the boundary-pushing theater scene of Germany? Fortunately, Thalia Theater Hamburg recently visited the great Nature Theatre of Cascadia! Their production of Franz Kafka's Amerika came to the stage in Seattle on November 16.
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