Franz Kafka’s short story “A Hunger Artist” features a man who starves himself in a cage before a group of sometimes intrigued, sometimes bored, sometimes frustrated circus attendants. In the stage ...

HartBeat Ensemble kicks off the New Year with the regional premiere of A Hunger Artist, adapted from Franz Kafka's short story by the award-winning theater company Sinking Ship Productions ...

Lately I’ve begun to wonder whether A Hunger Artist is an awful name for this blog. I also realise I’ve never said anything much about why I chose it. My three hunger artists ‘A Hunger ...

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LOS ANGELES -- To portray the Holocaust-era pianist Wladislaw Szpilman, actor Adrien Brody had to lose a lot of weight, so he starved himself. Slim to begin with, he lost about 30 pounds in six ...

Girls Names, a Belfast-based post-punk foursome, stare down the realities of a musician’s life in their new single “A Hunger Artist” — taken from the band’s upcoming third LP ...

But his perspective will shift. In a reference to a 1922 Kafka story, he calls himself “a hunger artist by choice,” embracing suffering. Silbermann’s flight begins when Nazi goons bang on ...