After the Rain
Sergi Belbel
After the Rain
Translated by: Bakucz Dóra
Duration: 2'30"
Premier: 2019-11-13 (5 years ago)
The action takes place on the 49th floor of an office building. All vices are forbidden, therefore smokers use to sneak here, climbing several floors in order to escape their offices and spend their gloomy work days covered in cigarette smoke and nicotine bliss. It is an antihuman environment, the employees are lonely, the secretaries are too chatty, relationships are superficial and, day by day, it is becoming more evident that not only human souls have gone dry, but also the Earth. About ten employees in a huge city gradualy populate the terrace, facing the nevrotic weather, looking at the sky and waiting for salvation: rain. It's been two years since the last rain.
Workaholism, divorce, intimate relations or missing a child, scheming at the office and searching for happiness under the pressure of a job - these are usually the subjects of Sergi Belbel's plays, which are constructed like a sequence of film frames. We hope that the dear spectator can step back from overtime work hours and laugh and cry at the characters which are similar to our co-workers.
The performance has English surtitles.
This project was co-financed by Hungary's National Culture Fund.
Roles
| The red-haired secretary | Borbély B. Emília |
| The dark-haired secretary | Csábi Anna |
| The blonde secretary | Keresztes Ágnes |
| The brown-haired secretary | Lőrincz Rita |
| The executive manager | Tokai Andrea |
| The administrative manager | Aszalos Géza |
| The programmer | Kiss Attila |
| The delivery guy | Csata Zsolt |
| The one who would like to smoke | Bandi András Zsolt |
Information
| Directed by | Csábi Anna |
| Set designer | Albert Alpár |
| Costume designer | Lőrincz Rita |
| Music composer | Cári Tibor |
| Choreography | Baczó Tünde |
| Stage manager | Pataki Anna-Mária |
| Light design | Gidó Zoltán |
| Sound | Meda Dávid |
| Photo | Petru Cojocaru |
| Prompter | Czumbil Marika |
| Poster | MAROSSY CSILLA |
