Kafka's Dick

...treatment of artists. Bennett has always been ambivalent about the value of life-writing, as can be seen most graphically in his 1986 play Kafka's Dick. The author of The Trial had asked Max Brod to destroy all his papers. Did he mean it? Do...

In this article: Alan Bennett, WH Auden, Benjamin Britten, The History Boys, Andrew Motion, Ian McKellen, National Theatre, and Philip Larkin

...and starring Richard E. Grant as Kafka. The film blends ''The Metamorphosis with Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Alan Bennett, Kafka's Dick, 1986, a play in which the ghosts of Kafka, his father Hermann, and Max Brod arrive at the home...

In this article: Franz Kafka, Max Brod, The Metamorphosis, Prague, Berlin, The Castle, The Trial, and Judaism

...(1986), with Daniel Day-Lewis and Jim Broadbent. On the stage, she worked again for Alan Bennett in the World-Premiere production of Kafka's Dick at the Royal Court Theatre, with Jim Broadbent, Geoffrey Palmer and Alison Steadman. She can...

In this article: Vivian Pickles, Roger Moore, Bud Cort, Harold and Maude, London, Ken Russell, Lindsay Anderson, Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World, Phoenix Theatre, and Isadora Duncan

...he said. Musing that this sickish joke was especially poignant because it was physically agonising to make, off went Bennett to write Kafka's Dick and The Insurance Man, a television play about Kafka's work as an executive for the Workers'...

In this article: Alan Bennett, Evelyn Waugh, Joe Orton, The Wind in the Willows, Nigel Hawthorne, and Sausage

...(Shakespeare). These were hits at the Edinburgh Fringe, in London and on tour. Later stage work included the original productions of Kafka's Dick (1986) and Our Country's Good (1988) at the Royal Court Theatre and work for the Royal...

In this article: Jim Broadbent, Del Trotter, Patrick Barlow, Spider-Plant Man, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Our Country's Good, Indiana Jones series, Leighton Park School, World War II, and BBC Radio 4

Set in the present-day in a suburban Yorkshire dwelling, Kafka aficionado Sydney, and his wife Linda, are visited by Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod who are both long dead. (Kafka had left instructions for all his works to be burned -...

In this article: Franz Kafka, Max Brod, and Sydney

...Penthouse Forum? No thanks. This may be a good time for some enterprising theatre company to stage a revival of Alan Bennett's play, Kafka's Dick. (Yes, it is about the writer's penis.) #30 posted by Lobster , August 10, 2008 10:59 AM

In this article: James Hawes, James Joyce, Boing Boing, Paul Verlaine, Time, Carl Einstein, Chuck Palahniuk, and Alan Bennett