Young Vic community participants include: Annie Greenslade, Antony Hampton, Barry Bowden, Boma Braide, Carol Morgan, Caroline Smith, Catherine Coker, Christina Christofi, David Mills, Declan Cooke, Drew Paterson, Jackie Kearns, Jan Teeuwisse, John Hellings, John S Watts, Kevin Bourke, Mable Muir, Michael Knight-Markiegi, Patricia Fryd, Peter Stanton, Robert Moore, Rod Brown, Stella Lee, Thelma Gordon, Val Harvey, Vince Rogers.

      Nel Crouch is supported through the Jerwood Assistant Directors Program at the Young Vic.

      Robert Awosusi is supported through the Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Directors Program at the Young Vic.

      With generous support from The Richenthal Foundation.

      We would like to thank James Hawes, Gareth Damian Martin, National Theatre Video Department, Gail at Essentially Eagle Vintage, Russell Beck, Vicky Fifield, Douglas Henn-Macrae at DHMidi Organs, Scott Farrell at Rochester Cathedral and Copperfield Rehearsal Rooms SE1.

       Biographies

       FRANZ KAFKA

      Kafka was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Prague in 1883. In 1906 he received a Law degree from Prague’s Deutsche Universität. By this time he had written many stories, sketches, prose poems and fragments of novels. He wrote prolifically, supporting himself by means of a job in insurance.

      By the time of his death from tuberculosis in 1924, he had published little and his work was known to few. He left his manuscripts to his friend Max Brod with instructions to burn them unread. Brod however arranged for the publication of his work, including The Trial which he compiled from the fragments Kafka had left unfinished.

      Taken together, his major works – The Trial and The Castle as well as his many stories and fragments, his diaries and letters and his famous “Letter to His Father” – all make him unquestionably one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the 20th century.

       NICK GILL

      Nick is a playwright, musician and composer.

      Theatre includes: beneverunerstoost (Royal Court); Sand (Royal Court); fiji land (Southwark Playhouse); Mirror Teeth (Finborough); and various shorts written as part of The Apathists, 2006-7.

      Music for theatre, film, radio and live performance includes: Thrown (Royal Court); In Eldersfield: Chapter 2 (Kings of England); One Million (Tangled Feet); Knock Out (Deutschlandradio Kultur) and Blasted (The Other Room).

      He is currently working on a new album by his seven piece instrumental group, The Monroe Transfer.

      RICHARD JONES – Direction

      Previous Young Vic includes: Public Enemy, The Government Inspector, Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan, Hobson’s Choice and Six Characters Looking For An Author.

      Other theatre includes: work directed at The Old Vic, The National Theatre, RSC, Ambassadors / Royal Court and in the West End.

      In New York, theatre includes the Public Theater and three titles on Broadway.

      Opera includes: work at the Royal Opera House, ENO, Glyndebourne, WNO, The Met, La Scala as well as in Paris, Berlin, Chicago, Munich, Frankfurt and Aix en Provence.

      Awards include: Olivier Awards for Too Clever By Half (Old Vic); Into the Woods (West End); The Trojans and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (ENO); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Royal Opera House) and Hansel and Gretel (WNO). Evening Standard Awards for The Illusion (Old Vic) and The Ring (Royal Opera House); Tony nomination for La Bete (Eugene O’Neill Theater, New York).

      Richard was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year’s Honours.

      MIRIAM BUETHER – Design

      Previous Young Vic includes: Public Enemy, Wild Swans (2013 Critics’ Circle Award), The Government Inspector, In the Red and Brown Water, The Good Soul Of Szechuan and Generations.

      Theatre includes: Sunny Afternoon, Chariots of Fire (Hampstead, West End); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath and Tricycle Theatre); Decade (Headlong); Earthquakes in London (2010 Evening Standard Award), The Effect (National Theatre); Sucker Punch (2010 Evening Standard Award), In The Republic of Happiness, Love and Information, Cock, Get Santa! (Royal Court); Game, Judgement Day (Almeida); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester, West End) and Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom (Tricycle, West End, New York and San Francisco).