The Trial
From the novel by Franz Kafka

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Directed by Andrew Bielski.
Original musical score by Patrick Penta .

Featuring Daryl Brown, Ava Eisenson, Daniel Granke, Jonathan Levy,
Jason Smith, Robert Weinstein, Matthew Woods & Andrew Zimmerman.

On his deathbed, Franz Kafka requested that his friend and confidante, Max Brod, destroy all of his unpublished manuscripts. This request was famously refused by Brod, who went on to oversee the editing and publication of Kafka's remaining work, including the fragmentary novel The Trial, published in 1925, the year after Kafka's death.

The Trial tells of Joseph K., the chief executive officer of a large bank who is awakened one morning to find that he has been placed under arrest for a crime of which he is ignorant. His arrest sets in motion a series of encounters with a corrupt and absurd legal system, its officials and associates, as Joseph K. struggles to defend his innocence.

In turns terrifying, erotic and hysterical, The Trial touches, through the language of nightmare and myth, upon humankind's social and spiritual predicament in the labyrinth of the post-industrial age.

In February of 2007, the Egress Theatre Co. brings this masterwork to the stage in a world premier production with an original musical score by Patrick Penta.




A production of the Egress Theater Company. This program is made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field and with the generous support of the Meet the Composer Creative Connections Program.