“Somebody must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one fine morning, he was arrested...” An insignificant bank clerk is arrested without knowing why. He is interrogated without even being told the charges against him. Caught in the web of a dark and faceless bureaucracy, he becomes prey to the power of evil...

“The Trial” by Franz Kafka is one of the most emblematic works of world literature. The theatrical adaptation by Konstantinos Kyriakou highlights the bleak Kafkaesque landscape in a trial that seems to never end... “The Trial” is a universal allegory of guilt in political and theological terms.

Manos Stefanidis