Sitting in a dark room, a three-dimensional soundscape gets you to enter Josef K’s world. Armed with high-quality wireless headphones, you experience sounds as if they’re all around you — footsteps from behind, whispers from the side and the bustle of a courtroom. Welcome to I, Josef , a 45-minute deeply immersive and thought-provoking multimedia experience that invites audiences to slip into the shoes of Franz Kafka’s most well-known character, who gets unexpectedly arrested and put on trial for an unspecified crime.
This adaptation of Kafka’s Der Prozess ( The Trial ) is re-imagined through a unique first-person perspective that immerses the listener into K’s world through binaural audio. Presented by Kaivalya Plays in collaboration with the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, to celebrate #100YearsKafka, it was staged recently in slots with only 30 audience members in attendance at a time. Relevant script Kaivalya Plays’ general manager Gaurav Singh Nijjer has directed and designed the play| Photo Credit:Courtesy: Kaivalya Plays Despite being written over a century ago, The Trial remains strikingly relevant in today’s world, particularly in India.
According to Kaivalya Plays’ general manager Gaurav Singh Nijjer, who directed and designed the play, themes of bureaucratic complexity, the struggle for justice and individual freedom in the face of authority are more pertinent than ever. I, Josef aims to bring these themes to life in a visceral way,.