ScotsGay Magazine

*****

It is often difficult to get perspective on a drama when the cast has to perform in such a restricted space that some of the audience could reach out and touch them. Yet such is the superb quality of the acting here that the lack of space seems to heighten the experience, to make it appropriately claustrophobic. The audience is drawn into lives by turns desperate, savage and forlorn. This is a thrilling production of Steven Berkoff's version of Kafka's novel.

Adam Lenson is immediately convincing as Joseph K, and the other four cast members share fifteen parts. Alex Klineberg is sweepingly impressive as Huld, and Natalie Kesterton and Emma Hiddleston swing between characters with absorbing precision. If you want a thrilling re-enactment of this classic and ever-relevant tale, catch this one.

Tony Challis

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