Edinburgh Fringe Reviews:

★★★★★ Broadway Baby

“Nashman’s performance is spell-binding….The whole production is flawless.”

★★★★★ FreshAir.

“Stylistically sublime, ‘Kafka and Son’ is theatrically outstanding….An inspired performance.”

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Kafka and Son at Bedlam Theatre (venue 49)

To 28 August, 2.30pm (£12/10)

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.

Kafka and Son features actor Alon Nashman, selected as Toronto’s number one theatre artist of 2008 by NOW Magazine, and is directed by Threshold Theatre’s Mark Cassidy.

The show has traveled with acclaim across Canada and to the National Theatre of Iceland, where it ran parallel to the Theatre Vesturport (Iceland) and Lyric Hammersmith (UK) co-production of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

Bedlam Box Office: 0131 225 9893 and www.bedlamfringe.co.uk

Fringe Box Office: 0131 226 0000 and www.edfringe.com

For more information contact Alon Nashman.