When working on the famous novel adaptation of Kafka, the biggest challenge for the designer is how to depict the insect-like creature Gregor Samsa has turned into. Kafka himself didn't want the insect to be depicted on book covers: “The vermin cannot be shown, it is unrepresentable.”-he said.

In our interpretation the set design itself is the vermin, including the audience seated inside of it. The space reminds of an industrial tunnel or the inside of a monstrous cocoon, where we, the audience just like Gregor are trapped within. Parts of the set continue around the audience to strengthen this feeling. The spectators are often spoken to, and even examined by the doctor who arrives to inspect the strange creature.

In the first scenes the space contains elements of an average room, but as the story moves onward we lose connection to the human world and become more and more part of the monster. Step by step the space becomes longer and tunnel-like.