Josef K’s thirtieth birthday begins with a knock on his door from two sinister agents. They’re from an unidentified agency, here to arrest him for unidentified crimes.

But this is no birthday prank - this is life or death.

So begins K’s dark descent into a waking nightmare of bizarre humiliations and compulsive procedures.

The Olivier Award-winning Kinnear (Hamlet, Skyfall) leads the cast of this new production, directed by Richard Jones and designed by Miriam Buether in a new adaptation by Nick Gill.

Irritated by a dismissive use of the phrase "talking heads" to describe the most boring parts of the schedule, Alan Bennett set out to restore the monologue – which had become associated with music hall or stand-up comedy – to the heart of TV drama. Patricia Routledge as a dying office busybody in A Woman of No Importance (1982) was effectively a pilot for two later series of six, which included Maggie Smith as an incredulous vicar's wife and Thora Hird as two differently stricken widows. With rare and economic shifts of perspective, the direction focused attention on the ­actor's face and voice and the author's extraordinary ear for the shading and shaping of an anecdote. Playing Sandwiches, in which David Haig portrays a park-keeper, begins on a deceptive note of Bennettian nostalgia – "I was in the paper shop this dinnertime getting some liquorice allsorts" – but develops into a daring attempt to enter the head of a paedophile. In an era when ­senior actresses have ­complained about the shortage of decent parts, Bennett provided 11 peak-time roles for older women. By 2008, when ­EastEnders gave Dot ­Cotton a solo ­episode ­indebted to ­Talking Heads, it was clear how right the quietly pioneering Bennett had been to ignore television prejudice.

一年前，作为特种部队一员的约瑟夫·史密斯中士（杰森·斯坦森 Jason Statham 饰）在阿富汗战场经历了常人难以想象的血雨腥风。因某起事件他被军事法庭指控，并被诊断患有攻击压力症。之后约瑟夫从医院逃出，混迹在流浪汉中间艰苦求生。他化名乔伊，与名叫伊莎贝尔（维多利亚·贝维克 Victoria Bewick 饰）的女孩结伴。在一次被歹徒袭击之后，慌不择路的乔伊意外闯入一幢无人房间，适逢主人赴美公干，他放心享用主人的一切物品。饱受精神困扰的他，似乎只能从善良的修女克里斯蒂娜（阿嘉塔·布泽克 Agata Buzek 饰）那里得到些许帮助。
偶然机会，乔伊涉足中国黑道，在刀头舔血赚取营生的同时，他意外听到关于伊莎贝尔的消息……