Adapted from Murray Gold's award winning radio play, Kafka the musical premiered for the first time in Victoria at Theatre Inconnu. A struggling Franz Kafka has been approached by a famous producer to star in a musical based upon himself. In the play an unsuccessful but promising writer finds himself in a world that is nothing less than Kafkaesque. Will this be the event that can turn his life around? Or is it really even happening? In the course of the play he must confront his overbearing father and find love, but the show must go on. Don't be daunted by preconceptions! Playwright Murray Gold has made this touching, and often hilarious, portrait of Kafka accessible to all.
Murray Gold's new play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life. The play - or is it the musical? - introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life, Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer.
Franz Kafka ..... David Tennant
Father ..... David Fleeshman
Mother ..... Joanna Monro
Milena ..... Naomi Frederick
Felice ..... Jessica Raine
Dora ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Barman / Singer / Doctor ..... Trevor Allan Davies
Newspaper Seller / Man ..... Brian Bowles
Music by Murray Gold
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer