Kafka's Dick (2007)

Poster by Poster Designer

by Alan Bennett

Directed by Lisa Thomas

Performances: Wed 21st - Sat 24th November 2007, Prompt Corner

Introduction

NB - this production is still in preparation - full details will be posted to this page when available

Kafka's Dick is about the nature of fame and how reputations are made - and also a bit about fathers and sons (and tortoises)...

Cast

These character descriptions are taken from the audition notices

• KAFKA - playing age 25-35 - the writer. Ideally tall, dark, attractive, but able to convey an air of despair - he's apparently dying
• BROD - playing age 25-35 - Kafka's friend and biographer. Smaller, full of energy, bustling, enthusiastic.
• SYDNEY - playing age 35+ - an enthusiastic 'disciple' of Kafka but otherwise an ordinary bloke.
• LINDA - playing age 30+ - Sydney's wife - feels she might have made more of her life.
• FATHER - should look pretty old (70+). Sydney's dad. Has a Zimmer frame. Bit of a scene-stealing part.
• HERMANN K - playing age 45+ Kafka's father. At once alarming and endearing at the same time. NB. Jim Broadbent played him in the original production if you want a type.
• JULIE - playing age 35+ - is Hermann's wife and a social worker at the same time! All will become clear (sort of)

Crew

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Reviews

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Reminiscences and Anecdotes

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See Also

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