Kafka & Son

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Saturday, February 21st, 2015
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Following an international tour, Intrepid Theatre is proud to announce the return of Alon Nashman (Hirsch – Uno Fest 2014) with his intense and haunting solo portrait of Franz Kafka and his father. Fewer than 50 seats are available for this special performance in the intimate Intrepid Theatre Club.

Kafka and Son is essential, expressionistic theatre, which has toured to acclaim in North America and Europe. 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, examination of domestic authority, and a journey ”into the heart and the mind of the inventor of the modern psyche.” (*****The Hague Online)

Winner Brickenden Award For Outstanding Production, 2011, London, Canada
“Nashman’s performance is spell-binding… The whole production is flawless.” Broadway Baby ★★★★★
“Stylistically sublime… theatrically outstanding.” FreshAir ★★★★★
“A double performance of extreme and precise virtuosity.” Edmonton Journal ★★★★★
“Packed with edgy energy and booming heart, this is what the Fringe is all about.” Edinburgh Guide ★★★★★ 
The winner of the Outstanding Performance Award at the 2013 Prague Fringe