Report to an Academy

Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka?**. A story about a chimpanzee raised as a human, treporting his experiences and longings to the Academy of Sciences. Translated and adapted as a one-man show for the stage and directed for South Africa by Mario Schiess with Marius Weyers in 1980. The production became a massive hit, financially and economically and critically, being performed around the country and abroad for the following number of years. He won a number of awards for the role, including the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award in 1980. In 2003*? Abduragman Adams did another version of the Schiess text Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka at the Grahamstown Festival.

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