DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer
DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer
DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer
THE (NEW) TRIAL
Theater for the New City
August, 2015
written by Peter Weiss
adapted & directed by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li
Producer: Maria Hoffmann, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li | Advisory Producer: Miriam Ibrahim | Production Manager: Leonie Ettinger | Stage Manager: Laura Virginia Sández | Scenic Designer: You-Shin Chen | Lighting Designer: Yi-Chung Chen | Sound Designer: Yung-Chin Chang | Graphic Designer: Lisa Lee
ENSEMBLE: Brad Burgess | Leah Bachar | Jody Doo | Serena Gregorio | Samantha Hoefer | Maria Hoffmann | Omri Kadim | Maite Uzal "The (New) Trial" is partially funded by Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, and is made possible by The Living Theatre, & Label Gray.
“The (New) Trial” presents a surreal look at the life of Joseph K, an attorney at an international corporation, by exploring K’s obsessive idealism and his self-destructive addiction to help others. Confined to his docile body, K is manipulated to function as a public mask by the corporation he works for to win the “war” of the global market expansion, and is eventually abandoned once the victory is obtained.