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...Trial. A comedy by Allan Piper. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Free...
...Allan Piper...
directed by Allan Piper...
...program for "The Trial" claims that Allan Piper's comedy playing this weekend at The Loeb Ex has nothing to do with the novel by Franz Kafka of the same name. An unfinished work published posthumously, Kafka's The Trial concerns a man's confrontation with a bureaucracy he cannot understand. He is tried for an unspecified crime by an enigmatic legal authority and all of his efforts to obtain justice result in frustration and a loss of human dignity. In the end, he is stabbed to death. Some critics call it an allegory of the quest for divine justice...
...Allan Piper's production, on the other hand, is quite funny. In fact, it's a little crazy. The only similarity between the Piper and Kafka texts is that they are both stories of men fighting against loony justice systems...