Life & Times of Michael K

Life and Times of Michael K is a novel by Nobel prize winner J.M. Coetzee

Also called Life & Times of Michael K by some sources.

Adapted for the stage by Lara Foot, in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company.

Life and Times of Michael K

JM Coetzee’s, Life and Times of Michael K, adapted for the stage by Lara Foot, in collaboration with the Tony Award-winning Handspring Puppet Company. A frighteningly beautiful story that follows a simple man who embarks on a journey through a South Africa, shattered by civil war, to return his mother to die on the farm where she was born. A co-production between Theater der Welt Düsseldorf 2021, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Baxter Theatre Centre and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

2021: Life & Times of Michael K opened at The BaxterTheatre in June , but was cancelled on the day of the first preview, due to two positive COVID cases and debilitating regulations.

2021: The play was then at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, in Germany in November. We received seven curtain calls and a standing ovation. We were all very emotional to have finally opened this production that had been three years in the making.

2022: Life & Times of Michael K and Kiss of the Spider Woman (which was also postponed) are scheduled to open at The Baxter from 28 February to 19 March.