As part of the Royal Opera House’s series of online performances, watch this critically acclaimed production of Franz Kafka’s 1915 novel, choreographed by Arthur Pita

The premise of this story, written by bohemian German novelist Franz Kafka over a hundred years ago, in 1915, is as startling as it is surreal. ‘One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed, into a giant insect’, is how the story begins.