Kafka Week on 3

[french frank]

From Sunday 10 - Saturday 16 May a series of documentaries and drama on BBC Radio 3 will examine one of the most elusive and intriguing figures in 20th century literature, Franz Kafka.

More details here.

[ardcarp]

How -esque!

[french frank]

How -esque!

There will be a detailed playlist but it will not correspond with what is being broadcast. Drama on 3 The Trial will be a performance of Trial by Jury and the Thursday Essay on The Castle will be the new production, live from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket: The Elephant Man.

[ardcarp]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I hope the TV schedulers find a spot to repeat this, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTMHUIN6ciM

[Radio64]

Yowza! thanks for the info.

[Dphillipson]

There will be a detailed playlist but it will not correspond with what is being broadcast. Drama on 3 The Trial will be a performance of Trial by Jury and . . .

The "adaptation" of The Trial by Mark Ravenhill (Sunday 10 May) was called instead The Process -- just as well, since it had nothing to do with Kafka. It presented neither Kafka's protagonist nor the predicament in which Kafka placed him (but was instead ostentatiously modern and trendy.) Mind you, it did not hold me until the end.

[french frank]

The "adaptation" of The Trial by Mark Ravenhill (Sunday 10 May) was called instead The Process -- just as well, since it had nothing to do with Kafka. It presented neither Kafka's protagonist nor the predicament in which Kafka placed him (but was instead ostentiously modern and trendy.)

I haven't listened yet, but I don't know what it is about Radio 3 that, while it will broadcast standard classical music in a 'standard' way, it feels the need to adapt classic plays as if they were set now (remember 'Uncle Varick'?). I willingly concede that such adaptations can be illuminating but it would be satisfying to hear a season of classics which hadn't been commissioned to provide contemporary writers with work.

[Honoured Guest]

The Bernard Shaw plays recently on Drama on 3 were as you would wish, ff.

In the theatre it's usual to adapt classics. For example, Carol Ann Duffy's new version of the medieval morality play Everyman now playing at the NT in Rufus Norris's production