Joseph K and the Cost of Living

Joseph K has a comfortable job in financial services and barely notices the growing chaos all around on the walk to work: the homelessness, the food banks, the anger, the protests, the relentless rise of the cost of living. Until one day, K is arrested. No one will explain what the charges are, but they must be answered. Emily White's adaptation of The Trial weaves the nightmare of arrest and injustice into a funny and physical take on Franz Kafka's classic. The play premiered at the Swansea Grand Theatre, in a production by National Theatre Wales, in March 2023.

Emily is an emerging screenwriter and playwright. Before becoming a writer, she trained as an actor at RADA. In 2018 she won a place on Channel 4's 4Screenwriting Course. She was selected to be part of the BBC Wales Writersroom group 'Welsh Voices' in 2019. Her acclaimed play, Pavilion, premiered at Theatr Clwyd in 2019, directed by Tamara Harvey. In 2020 she was nominated to be one of the writers on the Nationwide Voices programme with the English Touring Theatre. She was also commissioned by Theatr Clwyd to write her play Atlantis, which won the George Devine Award in 2021. She has a TV comedy drama series in development with Little Door Productions and the BBC, and a film project in development with Riot Time Pictures.