Franz and Felice
An intimate and mischievous drama that follows the twists and turns of Franz Kafka's most significant romantic relationship, and explores how his unique imagination responded.
By Ed Harris
An intimate and mischievously punk telling of Franz Kafka’s most significant romantic relationship. Franz and Felice follows the twists and turns of the writer’s relationship with Felice Bauer, how events in their relationship burst violently into Kafka’s stories and imagination, and how his stories responded. And how everything, real and invented, played out in the shadow of his father, the dark presence always ready to enter from the room next door.
Narrator . . . . . Anton Lesser
Franz . . . . . Ashley Margolis
Felice . . . . . Abigail Weinstock
Ottla . . . . . Anna Spearpoint
Guide . . . . . Clare Corbett
Max . . . . . Ian Dunnett Jnr
Grete . . . . . Lily Anne Lefkow
Production co-ordinator: Ben Hollands
Sound design: Peter Ringrose
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
A Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Studios Audio production
Ed Harris is an award-winning dramatist and comedy writer. He has had over 20 audio plays broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 and 4, as well as three series of his popular wartime sitcom, Dot. His work has won numerous awards including two Writers’ Guild Awards, a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audio Drama Award and a Sony Gold/Radio Academy Award. His stage plays include Strangers Like Me (National Theatre Connections), Mongrel Island (Soho Theatre), Never Ever After (shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award) and What The Thunder Said (Theatre Centre). He is a current Royal Literary Fellow at Brighton University and Writer-in-Residence for the Oxford Kafka 2024 programme at Oxford University.
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