Synopsis
The Castle
$13
David Fishelson & Aaron Leichter from a dramatization by Max Brod based on Franz Kafka
Published by Dramatists Play Service
8 Male 3 Female
By turns sexy, comic and horrifying, this new stage version of The Castle
tells the story of a man who decides to fight a monstrous bureaucracy
rather than give in to it, attempting and failing to gain entrance
to a castle where he has been summoned to work
In its surreal depiction of an all-powerful organization (which some, including Thomas Mann, have called a metaphor for God), The Castle is a black comedy for our times
"A brilliant evocation of a nightmare world. Perfectly captures the bureaucratic barriers of the novel" - Wall Street Journal