I had the pleasure of collaborating with playwright Rachel DuBose on an adaptation of a crazy short story by - who else? - Franz Kafka for Mercy Street Theatre. The story, "A Report to an Academy," is told from the perspective of a chimpanzee who, after being shot and captured, learns to speak, smoke, drink, and think for himself.
In short: it's bananas.
While designing the half-human, half-animal qualities, I took inspiration directly from an old Twilight Zone episode, "The Eye of the Beholder."
My pal Christopher Semel and I had a quick shoot with model Alaina Moore, who gave us plenty of crazy expressions to work with.
We were just lucky to have found this crazy vintage monkey bank.