The Trial

Editorial

When: Previews 9, 10, 11 & 13 September, 2010
Season 14 September - 16 October, 2010
Where: Wharf 1
Tickets: From $30
Bookings: Sydney Theatre Company, 02 9250 1777

In collaboration with Melbourne Malthouse and Perth-based company ThinIce, Sydney Theatre Company is itching to present Louise Fox's new adaptation of Kafka's The Trial. With all of the author's trademarks, including obsessive eroticism, clowning absurd-ism and a touch of authority, this new production is bound to be just as intriguing as the 20th century classic novel.

Josef K is having a lousy birthday: he is arrested. The only trouble is, he doesn't know why or by whom. Once a confident, hard working bank clerk, K is dragged into an inexorable downward spiral of unjustifiable guilt by things he can't see or stop. As memories get mixed up with his surreal experience, K is brought to his knees and completely unravelled.

Fox's version of The Trial is pushed along by the relentless elusiveness and sartorial wit that Kafka made his own. With direction by the brilliant Matthew Lutton, the production is full of mystery, desire and of course, farcical comedy.

Ewen Leslie will take on the challenging role of Josef K with a supporting cast of amazing actors including John Gaden, Peter Houghton, Belinda McClory and Igor Sas.

Kafka never ceases to lend his genius material to creative types who, in this case, have concocted a deliciously surreal cocktail of which the writer himself would be proud. Sample it for yourself!

Emma McGowan, Citysearch