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ABSTRACT "In the Penal Colony" is a three-act play based on the original short story by Franz Kafka and adapted by ASU MFA playwright Christian Krauspe. Told in flashback-form; a lone female Traveler arrives at a nameless penal colony where she is asked to comment on an old execution device known simply as, "the apparatus." She is pressured by the colonies administration to condone the practice while simultaneously asked to endorse the machine by her guiding officer in hopes of preserving the mystical powers the apparatus seems to possess. The Traveler must make the choice to endorse or condone the machine while she faces her own demons in the process.
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- In the penal colony
Contributors
- Krauspe, Christian (Author)
- Reyes, Guillermo (Thesis advisor)
- Taylor, Philip (Committee member)
- Sterling, Pamela (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2011
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- Partial requirement for: M.F.A., Arizona State University, 2011Note typethesis
- Field of study: Creative writing
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by Christian Krauspe