{"id":675,"date":"2025-11-24T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/?p=675"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:25:52","slug":"kafkas-ape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/toneel\/kafkas-ape\/","title":{"rendered":"Kafka\u2019s Ape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Kafka\u2019s Ape<\/em> is a relentless, disturbing confession of a former ape who escaped his cage by learning to imitate \u201ccivilised\u201d humans. Trapped in a suit and with impeccable language, Red Peter reports to an academy that analyses him like a guinea pig while simultaneously applauding his \u201cprogress.\u201d When a black South African plays this quasi-human being, the play tears open the histories of racial caricature, scientific racism, and the politics of respectability. It asks: What do you have to cut off from yourself to be accepted as human \u2013 and is survival worth it if you end up becoming your own jailer?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kafka\u2019s Ape is a relentless, disturbing confession of a former ape who escaped his cage by learning to imitate \u201ccivilised\u201d humans. Trapped in a suit and with impeccable language, Red Peter reports to an academy that analyses him like a guinea pig while simultaneously applauding his \u201cprogress.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama","category-toneel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2026.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}