Joseph K By Tom Basden

Project 2013-08-14 03:33:47 +1200

My Accomplice Presents


Joseph K

By Tom Basden

Joseph K is a darkly comic modern adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial written by award-winning writer and comedian Tom Basden. Mysterious forces have disrupted London banker Joseph K’s 30th birthday, thrusting him into circumstances out of his control as he stumbles through the bureaucracy of his unexplained arrest.  Winners of Best Theatre at the Dunedin Fringe 2013, My Accomplice are back with this biting and brilliant satire on rules, red tape and The Establishment.

'Both hilarious and scarily believable' – Jon Davis (The Londonist)
'A fiercely precocious mixture of youthful irreverence and razor-sharp insight' – Dominic Cavendish (The Telegraph)

Starring Chapman Tripp winners Paul Waggott, Erin Banks, Ralph McCubbin Howell and up-and-comer Sam Hallahan

www.bats.co.nz/shows/joseph-k/
www.myaccomplice.co.nz

We need your help!

My Accomplice is a young Wellington based theatre company who have been working together since 2009. Joseph K is our first sole use season at BATS Theatre and the first time we’re performing someone else’s work.  While all our work has aspired to epicness, this one is really big. We’re planning something huge, with a vast set, a cinematic sound design, and oodles of eerily specific costumes and props. See, the biggest problem with doing someone else’s play is that you can’t just rewrite when you can’t get something for free or cheap.

So, we turn to you. Help us, Obi Wan KenPledgeMe, you’re our only hope.

So we’re all on the same page we should let you know that we secured an EAT (Emerging Artists Trust) Grant of $1000 and have a couple of hundred bucks in the coffers from the Accomplices previous cough award-winning audience favourite cough work. So, it’s not like if you don’t pledge the show isn’t happening. It just won’t be as good as it should or could be. This show is ambitious and needs a bit more support to make it the best it possibly can be. We are asking our PledgeMe friends to help us raise $500 so that we can clothe our actors, give them things to hold while they’re acting and things to act on or near. They like that. They tend to get a bit antsy when naked on stage.

Except for Paul.

If anything it’s a bit of mission getting him to keep his clothes on, to be honest.

Anyway, uh, give us your money. You’ll get some pretty cool stuff in return. Look. You even get tickets, so you’re basically just paying for your ticket a bit early if you want to think of it that way! But most importantly, come September, you’ll get a real cool show. We promise.

Love love love.

Who you are funding: MY ACCOMPLICE

HANNAH BANKS

UTHER DEAN

PAUL WAGGOTT

Cast and Crew for Joseph K

• Uther Dean - Director
• Creative Producer and Assistant Director – Hannah Banks
• Stage and Production Manager – Kate Clarkin

• Publicist – Brianne Kerr
• Set and Costume Designer – Meg Rollandi
• Lighting Designer and Set Builder – Nick Zwart
• Sound Designer – Tane Upjohn-Beatson
• Production Assistant Intern – Phillipa Drakeford
• Starring Paul Waggott, Erin Banks, Ralph McCubbin Howell Sam Hallahan
  

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