Director Claire Dancoisne loves small animals, especially insects. How could she miss Kafka's masterpiece “The Metamorphosis” then? The protagonist of this famous novel comes from a traditional and respectable family, but he is transformed into a large and disgusting cockroach. Inspired by Marquez, Craig, Kanter, and Tarantino, Claire Dancoisne created the play "BasiK InseKte" based on "The Metamorphosis", a fantastical noir fable full of disturbing characters, humor, and fantasy in the form of a Machiavellian thriller. Tragic, grotesque - turning into a cockroach is not necessarily a glorious metamorphosis, even if the idea would make Kafka laugh. This almost corrosive and irrational creation would be a theatrical invention of pure baroque fantasy, mixed with an infinitely evil but delightful absurdity.