Theaturtle and Threshold with Richard Jordan Productions in Association with The Pleasance presents KAFKA AND SON

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 a 50 page letter to his father in which he reveals deep connections between his life and his fiction. Adapted from this monumental 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.

Alon Nashman is a performer, director, creator, and producer of theatre. Since graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada, Alon has worked with theatres across the country and around the world. Selected credits include: The Summoned, Much Ado About Nothing, Forests, Scorched (Dora Award: Outstanding Production), Democracy, Remnants (Dora Award: Outstanding Production) Alias Godot (Tarragon Theatre), Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well, Botticelli in the Fire/Sunday in Sodom (Dora Award: Outstanding Production), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Dora Nomination), THIS (Toronto Theatre Critic's Award, Dora Nomination) (Canadian Stage), The Wild Duck (Soulpepper), Hedda Gabler (Volcano / Buddies in Bad Times), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Dora Award: Outstanding Production) (Birdland Theatre), Macbeth (Modern Times), This Hotel, Wedding Day at the Cromagnons (Theatre Passe Muraille), Howl (Threshold / Buddies in Bad Times)..., Talley's Folly, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Resurgence), If Jesus Met Nanabush (De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre), The Barber of Seville (Persephone Theatre), Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension (Dora Award: Outstanding Production) (Go Chicken Go), Reading Hebron, A Short History of Night, Restitution, and Singapore (Factory Theatre), Hirsch, None is Too Many (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), Hotel Loopy (Theatre Columbus), The Hobbit (Young People's Theatre). Alon was a principal actor/director with the "Shakespeare and The Queen's Men Project" at U. of Toronto, and Narrator/Storyteller in Tales of Two Cities with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.

Alon last performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in Hirsch in 2013.

'Nashman's masterpiece... the experience is almost completely overwhelming. It is a true and unforgettable privilege to be able to see this performer in South Africa.'

Johannesburg Review, South Africa

'Whether or not you are familiar with Kafka's writings this is one tremendous solo performance piece you don't want to miss. Highly recommended.' Prague Fringe Review, Czech Republic

See more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=2KJuSQ8rUHs

Venue: Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

Dates and Times: 2 - 27 August at 11.40 (not 15 & 16 August)

Running Time: 65 mins

Tickets: 2 - 4 August £6.00

5 - 8, 11 - 13, 18 - 20, 25 - 27 August £11 (£10)

9 - 10, 17, 23, 24 August £10 (£9)

14, 21, 22 August £9 (£8)

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