KAFKA

Written and performed by Jack Klaff
Directed by Colin Watkeys

Franz Kafka is still the presiding genius of experimental storytelling. 

A hundred years on from his death at the age of just 40, Kafka remains the voice of the outsider and the disempowered – struggling between the agony of solitude and the pains of intimacy, isolated in the big city and in the world, whilst never forgetting how absurd and hilarious life can be. 

Multi-award-winning writer and performer Jack Klaff (Star Wars) nimbly portrays Kafka’s friends, lovers, and critics - including Alan Bennett, Bertolt Brecht, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, Albert Einstein, among many others - to paint a mosaic of his life. Little-known details about Kafka, the man with the matchless imagination, are revealed in this bracing, off-kilter, always-surprising show.

June 12 - June 29, 2025

at 59E59 Theaters

★★★★★ "I guarantee you will never have seen a piece of theatre quite like this!" – London Theatre 1

★★★★★ "Singularly brilliant and unusually excellent"
"Klaff is an agile and captivating performer, playfully intelligent and briskly confident." – Lou Reviews

★★★★ "For those who come fresh to Kafka, this is likely to be an eye-opener that will take them from his life to the body of work he left behind in a thrilling way." – Jewish Renaissance

★★★★ "Klaff commands the stage. He demands our attention as he races to a brilliant finish." – London Pub Theatres

★★★★ "The best theatrical tribute you could give a writer" – Paul in London