The Trial - StoryFest

By Mohamed-Zain Dada
After Franz Kafka
Directed by Ameera Conrad

THE TRIAL is a bold, contemporary adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic novel. Joseph K is an ordinary man who wakes to find himself accused of an unnamed crime, then pulled into a legal machine where every answer creates more questions. Darkly comic and surreal, the play uses chorus, music and satire to explore surveillance, bureaucracy, paranoia, power and the fight to hold onto your voice inside a system designed to silence you.

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StoryFest is National Youth Theatre’ annual new writing festival, premiering 10 new plays featuring over 100 young creatives in July at the charity’s north London home.

StoryFest 2026 is sponsored by STUDIOCANAL and Urban Myth Films and supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at The Prism Charitable Trust, White Light and ODEON Luxe Holloway. We would also like to thank our principal supporters Arts Council England and Netflix and our Centre Stage Supporters, Investors In Talent and Friends. We would like to thank everyone who supports our national work with young people.