Matthew Kelly, Samantha Spiro

Insurance man Sydney and his wife Linda are leading perfectly ordinary lives in 1980s suburban Leeds when the esteemed (and long-dead) author Franz Kafka suddenly pitches up. With the great writer is his (also long-dead) friend Max Brod, he who ignored Kafka's dying wish that all his work should be burned and, as a result, made him one of the best-known writers of the 20th century. Things get even stranger when Kafka's father, Hermann, arrives – and threatens to reveal some very personal details about his son, details that Kafka would prefer kept private.

First performed at the Royal Court in 1986, this brilliant flight of fantasy shows best-loved playwright Alan Bennett at his most overtly comic. Clever and fast-moving, Kafka's Dick considers the nature of celebrity and our
fascination with the salacious details of artists’ lives.