“Esteemed members of the academy! You have done me the great honour of inviting me to give you an account of my former life as an ape.”

So begins Franz Kafka’s masterful short story A Report to an Academy. Red Peter is a star. Having taken the Variety Stage by storm, his life’s work was realised with an invitation to speak before the greatest thinkers of the age. He now stands, dressed in his finest top and tails ready to begin. His is the story of a brutal capture in an African jungle, to his mastery of the ‘civilised world’ - how an ape learned to ape man.

Young Vic International Associate Director Walter Meierjohann takes Kafka’s playful conceit one step further: a woman playing a monkey playing a man. Red Peter is performed by the Olivier Award-winning British actress Kathryn Hunter of London’s Complicite and the new Artistic Associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Deeply theatrical, witty and absurd, this new production places a profound and startling mirror in front of a modern-day audience.

Watch the Young Vic’s trailer for Kafka’s Monkey at YouTube by clicking here.

Hear what audiences in London are saying about Kafka’s Monkey by clicking here.

* Anzac Day road closures - Saturday 25 April

Due to road closures on Anzac Day, the matinee bus will be travelling on a different route. The bus will be picking passengers up from York Street (behind the QVB) but will still pick up from the usual spot at Circular Quay.