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Rattledanddísappeared Katona József Színház, Budapest, Hungary

The performance is not thè adaptation of The Trial by Kafka. Even if thè storyiine in a sense follows the original novel, we modified all the scenes to bring thè whole story closerto us, also with the intention of creating something new. Josef K. is arrested. First he thinks that thè events are a result of his colleagues'bad joke on his birthday, but later he understands that nothing isas he has imagined. After this point his story completely lacks dramaturgical turning points. The tribunal of existence, the women who want to help him, and his own Obsession more and more compel him to a battle, which he cannot win because he does not even know against whom and why he has to fight. Düring the process Josef K. makes enormous efforts to go deeper and deeper, only to assist his own execution at thè end, where he arrives completely out of mind, singing and dancing. Franz Kafka is said to have burst out with laug hier several times while reading his manuscript of The Trial to his friends. This is all K. couid do in orderte defend himself, but by wanting to trickout and escape certain rules, he also accepts their existence. There is no help for him, his only chance would be to disappearfrom this world. But the guard is always alert atthe doorway. The characters of Rattledanddisappeared try to cope with the unsupportable burdens on them. And there is noone who couid be taken seriously. There is no key for K. to understand this world. The lawyers are all crazy and erotomaniac. K's colleagues are all paranoiac. The women are only "means".Those who want to help him would need help. And the System, directed by an abstract Central Committee, says: "All dtizens have to cairn down at least one Citizen per week. Because that one has not calmed down anyone during this week, Because ha has not made anyone laugh this week. Because he has not tamed anyone this week. Because ha has not convinced anyone about something good this week. Because he has not consoled anyone this week..."

Viktor Bodó