Kafka's Dick

by Alan Bennett

200th Production. This hilarious absurdist comedy by Alan Bennett takes us from early 20th Century Prague, via a Leeds Semi-Detached and on through the gates of Heaven. On the way we explore the nature of fame and the way artists, their work and reputation are remembered and manipulated by critics and historians. The actors will need to fully inhabit the characters and their complicated relationships. These relationships- Husband and Wife, Parent and offspring, Hero and acolyte and the loyalty of friends is at the centre of the comedy in the play. I have been intentionally vague about the ages of the characters, essentially Sydney and Linda are middle aged and Dad must look old. Kafka and Brod are back from the dead and can be any age. Hermann and Julie were still alive when Kafka died so don’t have to look older but should be middle aged.

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Kafka - Paul Pritchard

30’s to 60’s. Introverted literary genius Preferably taller than Brod.
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Brod - Tom Keating

30’s to 60’s. Extrovert. Preferably shorter than Kafka. A chancer who has benefitted from disloyalty.
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Linda - Nicola Anderson

40’s to 60’s. Frustrated wife of Sydney. Naïve and put upon but also warm and sympathetic.
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Sydney - Andrew Driver

40’s to 60’s Insurance salesman obsessed with Kafka. He knows trivia about great artists but not their work.
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Hermann K - Mark Humble

40’s to 70’s Kafka’s father, a big overbearing bully.
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Julie - Julia Butterfield

40’s to 70’s Kafkas mother, put upon by Hermann.
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Father/Mother - Ian Thomas

70’s to 80’s in appearance. Sydney’s parent.
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Director - Paul Foster
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Set Design and Construction - John Godliman
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Stage Manager and Set Assistant - Liz Thomas