The Philip Glass opera ‘In the Penal Colony’ gets an unusual adaptation: the addition of stories from Cal State Long Beach students rebuilding their lives after incarceration.
With a libretto by Rudolph Wurlitzer based on the 1919 short story by Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony” tells of the high-ranking Visitor invited to a foreign island to observe the execution of a prisoner by a barbaric torture device. The prison’s commanding Officer operates the device, which carves the condemned prisoners’ crimes into their flesh. The Officer struggles to persuade the Visitor to support its use.
Playing a role so deeply familiar felt surreal, Pizzini said. After being sentenced to his first prison term in 1997, Pizzini recalled, he broke down in an elevator on his way to a holding room. “By the time it got to the first floor, there was only 12 feet between that elevator and the holding cell where there’s 50, 60, maybe even 100 guys in there waiting.”
Although the production follows Glass’ opera, Janisheski wanted to modify the work. “The original story only has one prisoner who actually never speaks,” he said. “But I didn’t feel it was politically viable at this point to stage a piece and continue to keep silent a group of people who … have been so silenced in our society.”
Pizzini brought context to the production as “someone who can talk to the other actors about his experience and provide that perspective that none of them have, that I don't have,” Janisheski said.
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