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KAFKA, adapted, scripted & performed by Jack Klaff will receive its first London production in over 30 years at Finborough Theatre

by Staff Writer
May 7, 2024
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Kafka Finborough Theatre

Kafka Finborough Theatre

Franz Kafka died in June 1924, one hundred years ago.  To commemorate his centenary, the critically acclaimed one-man show Kafka, adapted, scripted and performed by Jack Klaff, will receive its first production in London in over 30 years at the multi- award-winning Finborough Theatre, for a four week limited season.

Kafka was buried in Prague on 11 June 1924, and this production opens 100 years later to the day on Tuesday, 11 June 2024 (Press Nights: Thursday 13 June and Friday 14 June 2024 at 7.30pm).

Kafka is a one person show about a genius who loved one person shows This work, Kafka, is the theatrical event of Kafka’s centenary year.

       

Franz Kafka is still the presiding genius of experimental storytelling in the West.

A hundred years on from his untimely and painful death at the age of just 40, Kafka remains the voice of the outsider and the disempowered – struggling between the agony of solitude and the pains of intimacy, isolated in the big city and in the world, whilst never quite forgetting the mordant humour, the absurdity, of existence.

Kafka himself presented an actor friend of his in Prague in a series of theatrical one man shows. Inspired by this knowledge, multi-award-winning writer and performer Jack Klaff created his internationally acclaimed one-person evocation of Kafka’s life, works and times.

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Klaff’s Kafka features a tremendous array of indelible characters from Kafka’s unmatchable imagination, drawing on all of Kafka’s works including Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika, The Castle, and his letters, diaries, and fragments, Jack Klaff also impersonates a star-studded cast of Kafka’s friends, lovers, fans and commentators, including – amongst many others – Alan Bennett, Bertolt Brecht, Max Brod, Albert Camus, Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Melvyn Bragg, Ben E King, Harold Pinter, David Baddiel, Samuel Beckett, and Albert Einstein. And the many Kafka ‘scholars and intellectuals’ whose pomposity and pretension are satirised without mercy.

In 80 minutes within an empty space, this bracing, off-kilter, always-surprising show recreates the life, work and times of a unique human being with a unique mind. Standing ‘head outwards on this spinning planet’. Just like everyone else. Like all of us.

Kafka premiered in 1983 at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to commemorate the centenary of Kafka’s birth. It was then presented at Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms, Australia’s Perth Festival, Prague’s Culture Club and London’s Bloomsbury Theatre. Radio and television versions were broadcast in Australia, the Czech Republic, the United States and the UK. It was last seen as part of a Jack Klaff Retrospective at the Riverside Studios in 1994, and is now specially revived for the centenary of Kafka’s death.

       
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