CityLife

A production of 'The Trial', Steven Berkoff’s brilliant adaptation of Franz Kafka’s masterpiece, which more than 40 years after its first performance has become a classic of 20th-century theatre and a widely studied syllabus piece. Joseph K, an estranged and rootless citizen, is the victim of anonymous governing forces beyond his control. Deceived by authoritarian power, he is relentlessy hunted down for a crime that remains nameless. Finding himself arrested and awaiting trial, K sinks deeper and deeper as he tries to escape through twists and turns that are at once shocking, thrilling and funny. Kafka’s universal parable about the human condition is retold in Berkoff’s startlingly original, fresh and endlessly surprising play, which Blackeyed Theatre brings back to the stage in their inimitable way.