Kafka's Dick

First performed in 1986 at London's Royal Court, Alan Bennett's Kafka's Dick is presented in a new production. The witty and irreverent play has a simple central premise: Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod, returned from the dead, find themselves in the suburban home of Sydney, a Kafka fanatic, and his less literary minded wife, Linda. Brod spends the entire play trying to hide the fact that he did not burn Kafka's papers, as promised, but had them all published, thus making his friend one of the world's best-known writers. Along the way paternal relationships are examined. Kafka and his father Herman K's relative penis size become crucial to the plot whilst Sydney's Father, who pops in and out of the action, is increasingly convinced that these strange visitors are assessing him for a place in a care home.