Cameron Harris

If the audience is just as indifferent to Joseph K’s problems as the characters are, then it bears asking exactly why we’re watching the play.

The tension between the characters moves in peaks and troughs, always keeping the audience on their toes.

Like much of Bennett’s output, Kafka’s Dick mixes heaps of comedy with witty displays of learning and some moments of genuine tenderness.

All intellectual life is here, from Fermat’s last theorem to iterated algorithms – all via the symbolic nature of country gardens.

‘A tender and deeply funny story about a convoluted love triangle’