Two young comedians are spearheading a more theatrical style of comedy with their stage version of The TrialWhen you think Franz Kafka, what comes to mind? Mitteleuropean gloom, perhaps. "Bowler hats, briefcases and faceless bureaucrats," as playwright Tom Basden suggests. What you don't think of is standup comedy " between Kafka and Michael McIntyre, an unbridgeable gulf yawns. But Basden is a standup, too, as is 2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AM on November 22, 2010