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The term "grotesque" originally referred to a style of ornamental painting that combined human and animal forms in strange, intertwining ways. In art history, it came to mean something distorted, ugly, or bizarre. In the hands of the comedy troupe, "Grotesco" becomes a method of truth-telling.

Details * December 5, 2007 (Sweden) * Production company. Strix Television AB. "Grotesco" The Trial (TV Episode 2007) - IMDb Grotesco The Trial

If you were to stage this masterpiece today, certain sequences would define the experience: The term "grotesque" originally referred to a style

When Josef K. meets the prison chaplain, the scene is traditionally reverent and terrifying. In the Grotesco adaptation, the cathedral is a funhouse. The pews move on tracks. The chaplain is a giant marionette, or perhaps a ventriloquist dummy, whose jaw unhinges to deliver the famous "Before the Law" parable. As he tells the story, the lighting warps the pillars into prison bars. The parable is told not with solemnity, but with a frantic, carnival-barker energy—because the joke is on us. Details * December 5, 2007 (Sweden) * Production company

: Notable parodies include "Captain Ersatz" versions of Matthew McConaughey and Gene Hackman (referred to as Gene Hackencrack). Core Parody Elements