Gabriola Arts Council presents: Kafka and Son

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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Reception 7pm, Show 7:30pm, Q&A 8:30pm

Gabriola Arts Council presents the first in the fundraising season of 3 shows!

Kafka and Son
Adapted by Mark Cassidy and Alon Nashman
Performed by Alon Nashman
Directed by Mark Cassidy

At the age of 36 Franz Kafka was still living at home, a petty bureaucrat, a failed artist, a timid Jewish son. Ruling and ruining his life was his overbearing father, Hermann. What to do? Kafka wrote, in this case a 50 page letter to his father in which he reveals deep connections between his life and his fiction. As he confesses in the letter “All my writing was about you.”  Adapted from this monumental (and undelivered) letter, Kafka and Son is a blistering, often hilarious, dissection of domestic authority, and a revelatory visit with one of the architects of the modern psyche.

Stay afterwards for a discussion with Alon Nashman about any issues and ideas raised by the performance. There will be a cash bar, snacks and intriguing conversation.

“Kafka and Son is pure, unadulterated, surreal goodness.”
VueWeekly, Canada ★★★★★

Tickets $20
Available at North Road Sports, at the door or online at:
http://artsgabriola.ca/kafka-sons-ticket-order-page/

All profit will go towards funding the Gabriola Theatre Festival in August.