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About Tom Basden

Tom Basden's plays include: an adaptation of Dario Fo and Franca Rame's Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sheffield Theatres 2022; Lyric Hammersmith and West End 2023); The Crocodile an adaptation of a short story by Dostoyevksy (Manchester International Festival 2015); Holes (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013; Arcola Theatre London 2014); There is a War (as part of the Double Feature season in the Paintframe at the National Theatre); Joseph K an adaptation of Kafka's The Trial (Gate Theatre London) and Party (Fringe First Winner; Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Sydney International Festival/Arts Theatre London). He has written for some of Britain's best TV comedies including Peep Show Fresh Meat The Wrong Mans and Plebs which won Best New Comedy at the British Comedy Awards 2013 and Best Scripted Comedy at the RTS Awards 2014. He is also a member of sketch group Cowards who wrote and performed their own TV series on BBC4. For Radio 4 he has made two series of Cowards and three series of his sitcom Party based on his 2009 play. He has been nominated for a BAFTA three times and has won a Fringe First and an Edinburgh Comedy Award. Franz Kafka (18831924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer based in Prague who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle.