The Castle

The strange world of the literary classic Franz Kafka very rarely reaches the theatre stages. This time the plot of one of the most well-known novels of the writer, published posthumously (1926), becomes alive.

Running Time:

2:35

This is a piece of work which places itself on the borderline of expressionism and surrealism. Typically to Kafka, outwardly everything proceeds in every way realistically: as a result of a misleading (?) letter written by an official a surveyor K arrives at the castle with the task to get into the castle and take part in the surveying works. It gradually turns out that this apparently simple task is out of his depth: getting into the castle requires the overcoming of new obstacles, the passing of new bureaucratic inspection instances. For some reason the proprietors of the castle do not want to let a stranger into their territory to perform some kind of measurements there. Unnoticed, the surveyor K is drawn to a dreamlike whirl of events amongst which his initial task is pushed to the background, instead... Unnoticed, an observer who has melted into the Kafka world, has been let to wander in the darkest labyrinths of his unconscious, driven by the questions: what world is it? what is the point of it? who am I and what is the idea of my being in this world?