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Partially Burned: Neo-Futurist Plays on Kafka, Beckett, and Pinocchio/Frankenstein

Greg Allen

Three plays by The Neo-Futurists founding director, Greg Allen. K., an adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial; The Strange and Terrible True Tale of Pinocchio (the Wooden Boy) As Told by Frankenstein's Monster (the Wretched Creature), a mashed-up adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's classic fairy tale, Pinnochio, and Mary Shelley's Gothic story of another motherless creation; and The Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett As Found In An Envelope (partially burned) In A Dustbin In Paris Labeled "Never to be performed. Never. Ever. EVER! Or I'll Sue! I'LL SUE FROM THE GRAVE!!!," a loving send-up of the 20th century master of the absurd.

GenresKafka, FranzDramaBeckett, SamuelPinocchioFrankenstein's Monster

300 pages

English edition · First published 2015 by Hope and Nonthings · ISBN 9780981564395

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