Kafka the musical is an engaging and unexpected fantasy in which Franz Kafka is woken one day by his imperious father to be told that a local impresario is willing to put on a theatrical version of his life. In the play a promising but unsuccessful writer finds himself in a world that is, for want of a better word, Kafkaesque. The play will make him money, something his writing hasn't done. Will this be the event that can turn his life around? Or is it really even happening? All the characters and familiar events of Kafka's life come together in a great melange so that reality belnds into dream.