The Tomcsa Sándor Theatre presents a Kafka adaptation
The Tamási Áron Theatre awaits its audience with another guest performance: the Tomcsa Sándor Theatre’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, directed by Marcel Bélai on 29th, 30th and 31st May, at 7 pm.
Josef K., a bank manager, is unexpectedly arrested on the morning of his 30th birthday. The charges are not made public and K. tries to ignore the morning’s events. This is impossible, of course, as the law is always and everywhere catching up with him. Wandering through a bizarre, labyrinthine justice system, K.’s path is crossed by a gutted and hopeless group of characters, all inexplicably looking to him to turn their situation around. The more K. tries to clear himself, the deeper and deeper he is drawn into the arbitrary system of the tribunal that is trying him. The trial is Josef K.’s struggle with guilt and the all-encompassing anguish of his search for freedom and redemption.
“Kafka is not pleasant to read, while humour is at its core. But it is a very thin line on which Kafka’s humour moves: it is the laughter at his own senselessness, at himself, at his own Sisyphean struggles, which we in fact relive day after day. But at least he can laugh at this, he can smile at this, and this is important for the performance, that despite all the negative preconceptions – on the basis of which Kafka creates an oppressive atmosphere – the performance focuses on his humour”, said director Marcel Bélai at the press conference before the premiere.
The duration of the performance is 1 hour 45 minutes, without intermission.
