Cut Kafka!《咔嚓卡夫卡! 》is a collaborative work between T.H.E Dance Company (T.H.E) and Nine Years Theatre (NYT), inspired by Franz Kafka's life and works. The early drafts of the script were inspired by a number of different texts by or about Kafka-The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, The Hunger Artist, and personal letters addressed to his father-which were researched by writer and performer Neo Haibin. These texts were researched based on the initial ideas and framework laid down by co-directors / choreographers Kuik Swee Boon and Nelson Chia. However, the final work is not intended to be biographical or a presentation of his texts. Instead, what we have created is a contemporary response to the themes in Kafka's works.

The world that we come up with on stage is a space that can be imagined as a writer's mind. The writer may, or may not, be Franz Kafka, various themes are dissected and examined in this mind space, and what unfolds can be described as us dreaming about the writer, as well as the writer writing about us.

Cut Kafka!《咔嚓卡夫卡! 》was commissioned by Esplanade's Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2018

World Premiere: March 2018, Esplanade Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2018, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore