Write Act Repertory’s “The Trial”

April 29, 2004 by Dennis Baker 

“The Trial” written by Franz Kafka and adapted to the stage by Andre Gide and Jean-Louis Barrault is currently running at the Write Act Repertory Company in Hollywood. My friend and fellow dramatic Word member, Stacie Wengryn, is in the show.

The synopsis reads as such: K is guilty. He is accused of an unnamed crime in a clairvoyant vision of hidden totalitarian society, so that others, who live in comfort, can use the guilt-ridden man to prove their own self-worth. He is guilty of being as blind as Justice to the consequences of his actions-or inactions-and until he removes the blindfold, he will remain guilty.

He is guilty of giving up on the fight against the system, which wastes his time and encourages a cut-throat struggle to reach the top, keeping him busy until he dies.

The Trial is a life that is a diamond in the hand of a guilt-ridden man, Joseph K., which turns into a pebble of bureaucratic confusion, taken from him and thrown back at him by those in authority to destroy his resistance.

The play was performed with great masks and had hints of Commedia del Arte. The show was a little long and dragged at times, but overall good and worth seeing with some stand out performances.

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