The Destruction of Experience: Klamm's Dream

Performed by Tom Lyall and Gudmundur Ingi Thorvaldsson.
"The Destruction of Experience: Klamm's Dream" - "a monologue for two voices" - is a development of an earlier play "Klamm's Dream" (which inaugurated Studio 65). The two roles - A and B - have as models the two assistants, Jeremiah and Arthur, in Kafka's "The Castle", as well as Kafka and Janouch in the latter's account of their conversations in and about the former's office; they are each the divided 'voice' of Kafka's "Diary" also. At the heart of the play is an evocation of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony", a narrative of relations between writing and law, the body and state, testimony and dream.