"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

The Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Drama Studio staged its first ever public performance last week, with a compelling and dynamic one-hour version of Steven Berkoff’s Metamorphosis - directed and produced by a talented group of year 12 students.

Based on a novella by Franz Kafka, the story tells the parable of Gregor Samsa (superbly played by Ed Broadhead) - a humble, industrious man who, upon waking one morning, finds himself transformed into a gigantic beetle-like insect. Taking place in contradictory worlds of the strange and familiar, Gregor’s harrowing and absurdly comic journey underlines his representation as the alien/outsider, who endures cruelty and exploitation from his own family, for whom he has sacrificed everything.