About The Event
I, JOSEF is an immersive ‘headphone theatre’ multimedia experience based on an
adaptation of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ by Indian performing arts company Kaivalya Plays. It
places the audience directly in the experience of Josef K, an ordinary bank clerk arrested
and put on trial for a crime he doesn’t understand or know.Through vivid soundscapes—footsteps, whispers, eerie silences, city noises, and sudden shouts—the audience steps into K’s unsettling world. With 3D binaural sound and immersive projections, one experiences Kafka’s labyrinthine world from a first-person perspective, making them feel as if they are inside Josef K’s mind, grappling with the confusion and
chaos of his unresolved fate. Audiences can also switch simultaneously between English
and German languages.
Presented by Kaivalya Plays in collaboration with Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Children’s Theatre Festival, Rangbhoomi and Saptaparni, I, JOSEF was commissioned by
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi as part of #100YearsKafka.
Creative Team:
Direction and Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer
Script and Adaptation by Varoon P. Anand
Voiceovers by Paul Heeren, Matthias Dünnwald, Marta Kübler, Kriti Pant, Varoon P. Anand,
Gaurav Singh Nijjer and others
Production and Technical Assistance by Aaraadhye Natarajan, Anoop Gupta, Riddhijit
Chattopadhyay, Kanva Chaudhary, Kamlesh Bourai, Shivani
