Process

 
In such a turbulent world, it often feels like you are living in a simulation. That our life is nothing
more than a marathon in a labyrinth where we define our religion, our destiny, our love and our
dreams as spaces of rest. Sometimes we stop along the way.
Kafka Process captures the surreal feeling of floating between a dream and a distant memory.
Joseph story revolves around themes of time, dream states, the afterlife, healing and
consciousness.
Joseph story is our own daily story, in which we are often overwhelmed by the questions of the
future.
The first day of school – what will it be like?
The first bike ride – won’t I fall?
The first kiss – what will I feel?
The first day in a foreign country – how do I survive?
The first day with our new baby – will I be good enough?
The first parent was buried - is there life after loss?

How does life actually work? What are its laws? Where will the records of our innocence be
scrapped? We are cycles of dust, we experience better or worse days without knowing why the
printer of our life is running out of ink.

How much can we really control? Can we really control our lives or do we just live with this
impression? Is control controlled by its own need to control? - Director Botond Nagy.

The Premier is scheduled for May 24, and the premiere for May 25, at 19:00, at Fabrica de Cultură.

Cast: Gyan Ros Zimmermann, Daniel Bucher, Emőke Boldizsár, Viorel Rață, Eva Frățilă, Ada Bicfalvi, Isabela Haiduc, Malena Silberschmidt, David Guță, Daniel Plier 

"Dear Father" unloved

The show The Trial is not only a staging of the famous novel, but also a review of the most pressing obsessions of the Czech author. Not the deviation from the central concern is reduced to imagining the obsessive father, to a monstrous, destructive parental figure like a "zealous God".
At one point, the character Josef K. has a dream in which a cockroach speaks to him from the position of a Creator, behind them, either Kafka himself or the father whom Kafka could never love can hide. The inspiration for this scene was written in 1919 by the author and dedicated to the author himself. The hundred-page missive is an analysis of the relationship and conflict between Franz Kafka and his father, in which the author fails to overcome the need to explain and justify himself to the robust man, well still in reality and totally . incompatible with its original properties. It contains different features and interests you, you will not be able to accept it if it is not possible to purchase it further.
In addition to the letter to his father, Kafka reveals in The Trial his guilt inspired by the one he feels towards his father. Josef K. without reason his impeachment, just as Kafka agrees to agree to remain subject to his father. Kafka is as submissive to the father figure as Josef K. is to the law.

Josef K. and the feminine mystery
 
In the novel The Trial, several women gravitate around Josef K. Each of them occupies a seductive position, and the climate of guilt that reigns in the text is also fueled by the sense of guilt that Kafka himself carries after breaking off his engagement to Felice Bauer in 1914. Marriage remains a thorny issue for Kafka, who sees in it social success (as especially conceived by his father), a success to which he cannot aspire because it is fundamentally alienated from him.
In The Trial, Josef K. confronts several female figures: Mrs. Grubach, Miss Bürstner, the Clerk's Wife, Leni, and Titorelli's Nurses. Each illustrates an inaccessible (anti-) model of femininity, a bitter reflection of the protagonist's impossibility to be part of society, a failure of his own humanity.
Josef K.'s relationship with the various female characters in the novel is problematic, being very often placed in the position of seducer. Women are deceptive "adjutants", temptations that shorten his way out of his own "paradise" of his everyday and comfortable normality. A game of eroticism that brings to the surface one of the most repulsive manifestations of a human nature guided by the thirst for domination. Thus, Mrs. Grubach has an almost maternal relationship with Josef K., whom she idolizes and finds charming. The clerk's wife is in a special position: her husband uses her as an object, and the clerk lets her have relations with members of the court in order to keep her job. She asks Joseph K. to save her, but withdraws when he makes a gesture to that effect. Leni is the lawyer's nanny and falls in love with all the defendants who come to his office, and Joseph K., who is no exception, also succumbs.
In The Process, the female figure is perpetually associated with an "object of desire" or a "projection of desires." The woman has a "benevolent" status, as each of the female characters tries to help Joseph K. to see more clearly the legal stakes of his case and to get K. out of the absurd quagmire in which the system traps him....

Have you heard of Franz Kafka? 

Franz Kafka is one of the most important prose writers and novelists in the world. The expressive force and his unmistakable writing style have made him a landmark in literary history. He was born on July 5, 1883, in Prague. His father was a successful businessman who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. To his disappointment, Franz was completely incompatible with this desire: from a young age, he was introverted, dreamy, and fearful. Later, Franz Kafka would discover in writing a way to understand his own states of anxiety, trying to fulfill the tasks of a job he went to without any pleasure. In this stage of his life, as a worker in an insurance company, Kafka would discover the profound unhappiness that working with documents and the rigors of bureaucracy caused him. However, writing would remain a form of survival for him, without desiring to publish almost any of his manuscripts. In his short life, Kafka wrote several novels (The Trial, The Castle, and America) and several short stories, among which stand out The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and A Hunger Artist. Franz Kafka died on June 3, 1924, at the age of 41, from tuberculosis, leaving all his manuscripts to Max Brod, his closest of very few friends, asking him to destroy them. Fortunately, Max Brod did not honor this request.

 

The Story of a Trial... 

Published posthumously in 1925, The Trial is perhaps the most representative work bearing the signature of Franz Kafka. On the morning of his 30th birthday, Josef K. is awakened by two policemen who inform him, to his surprise, that he is under arrest. Without knowing what mistake he has made, K. goes to an inspector, but even he seems unaware of the reason for this arrest. Therefore, K. is free to continue his daily life, to return to the bank where he works, waiting for calls for questioning. Thus begins, for a year, an absurd race through courts and a series of endless interrogations, without the character understanding the true accusations against him. On the eve of K.'s thirty-first birthday, two men come to his room. They escort him to the edge of the city, where they stab him in the heart. Josef dies with the same dilemma: what did he do wrong?

 

Why is The Trial important? 

What is Josef K.'s guilt? Why is he arrested? In the end, who is right: a simple man or a "judicial" public institution that guarantees that you have committed a punishable mistake? 

Josef K.'s story is as simple as it is tragic and absurd. But also as real. Before writing this novel, Kafka himself worked as an insurance clerk in Prague, which allowed him to have an "inside" perspective on the increasingly bizarre norms and regulations legislated by the state. 

Similarly, many of his characters work for public institutions, revealing not only the absurdity of their own work, but also the futility of their lives dedicated to a useless task. 

The Trial remains an emblematic work, illustrating the dehumanization of individuals by the System which, due to bureaucratic complications, distorts reality. Josef K. is a "guilty without guilt," a stranger in his own existence, ultimately unable to understand what mistake he has made.

Have you ever been through a... Kafkaesque situation? 

Has it ever happened to you to need a certificate for which you run from one floor to another, from one desk to another? Or to create a file containing a thousand documents and "certified true copies" completely useless, only to be later told that you haven't filled out the correct annex? If so, then you have definitely experienced a Kafkaesque sensation. 

Although technology has reached a high level, we still live in a world dependent on papers, documents, stamps, and legalized copies. Bureaucracy has become, without us realizing, a part of our lives, which often gives us headaches. A similar sensation, but at an extreme level, is also felt by Kafka's characters, caught in the diabolic mechanism of public institutions, suffocated by absurd laws and codes.