Then, during Mr. Carey's version of the trial, a heckler appears.
As his guards had promised, this looked like no other version of The Trial.
Instead he performed his own homemade version, sourcing the purest MDMA he could find, booking himself a therapist and doing a successful DIY version of the trial.
But that simple version of the trial is barely to scratch the surface of the full story of the Dukas or cases like it.
The Jones-Pinter partnership was renewed for a film version of The Trial (1993), which scrupulously located Kafka's fable in a world of quotidian reality.
Christopher Hampton, who has made a most vivid, lucent translation, is also working on a libretto for an operatic version of The Trial.
Now his daughter is undertaking a task that even a Smithsonian curator might find daunting: researching and cataloging every item, in a kind of extreme version of the trial many people go through upon inheriting the contents of a parent's household.
Kafka is pretty big this week, with the second part of Retz's immersive one-on-one version of The Trial opening across multiple venues in east London and a new take on In the Penal Colony being staged in a site-specific spectacle at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
Rarely performed works by Eugene O'Neill and Marguerite Duras, a Simon Stephens play directed by Ivo van Hove, a version of The Trial starring Rory Kinnear and two bold Shakespeare productions are among the highlights of an enticing 2015 lineup at the Young Vic theatre in London.
He also listed Orson Welles' version of The Trial and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut as inspirations for many of his shooting and editing decisions.
