In The Penal Colony - Adaptations

Adaptations

• In 1999 Charlie Deaux wrote and directed the short avant-garde film Zoetrope, which is loosely based upon the story.
• In 2000 composer Philip Glass wrote a chamber opera, In the Penal Colony, based on the Kafka story.
• In 2009 Young Iranian filmmaker, Narges Kalhor, showed her short film adaptation at the Nuremberg Film Festival
• In July of 2011, the ShiberHur Theatre Company of Palestine presented a new version of In the Penal Colony, adapted by Amir Nizar Zuabi, at London's Young Vic.
• In 2012 Egyptian independent theatrical group Warsha performed an Arabic language adaption in Cairo directed by Hassan El Geretly.