Kafka

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, Jack Klaff created his one-person evocation of Kafka’s life, works and times.

Klaff’s Kafka features an array of characters, drawing on all of Kafka’s works including Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika, The Castle and his letters, diaries, and fragments.

Klaff also impersonates a star-studded cast of Kafka’s friends, lovers, fans and commentators, including 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.