IN THE PENAL COLONY, adapted from Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name, investigates the performance of power, patriarchy and punishment. Three black men convene on an unnamed penal colony and challenge the presumptions of the worth of a human body, asking what does it mean for black male bodies to exist: in the media, when observed, when consumed, when punished. Adapted and directed by 2018 Princess Grace Award/Honoraria Miranda Haymon.

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