Performances
Wajdi Mouawad Scorched
In a world that most of us perceive as colder and colder and more and more individualist, the past and our predecessors' stories often remain in the background. But we can't have a proper rapport neither with the present nor with the future without looking into the past, as there is the place we can find "truths that can only be revealed when they have been discovered", as one of the characters in the play states.
Staged in a national premiere at the Hungarian State Theatre "Csiky Gergely" from Timisoara, the play Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad (Canadian of French expression and of Lebanese origins), is a puzzle-like story about the loss of a mysterious past full of darkness and which is difficult to recover. The subject depicts a sinuous initiation itinerary of the twins Jeanne and Simon, in their attempt to decrypt their mother's past, the history of a woman who, before her death remained silent for five years.
The play was adapted for the film nominated for the OSCAR in the category "Best Foreign Language Film" of the year 2011.
7/7
Duration: 50'
All the world's a stage,An all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,In fair round belly with good capon lined,With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,Full of wise saws and modern instances;And so he plays his part. The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slippered pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideFor his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,Turning again toward childish treble, pipesAnd whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion,Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
based on Lázár Ervin's story The Seven Headed Fairy
„Who is the seven-headed monster?”
„It's the seven-headed monster, the one who damned you...”
In a perfect world, where everybody looks like they belong inside a fashion magazine, where everybody is handsome and famous, perfect and successful, how do the different ones find their place?
The play was inspired by the "Seven-headed fairy" fairytale, written by the Hungarian writer Lázár Ervin and tells the story about self-acceptance and accpeting the others. The subject was transposed to our present days, which by their perfectly polished expectations, make our lives more difficult.
„It's the seven-headed monster, the one who damned you...”
In a perfect world, where everybody looks like they belong inside a fashion magazine, where everybody is handsome and famous, perfect and successful, how do the different ones find their place?
The play was inspired by the "Seven-headed fairy" fairytale, written by the Hungarian writer Lázár Ervin and tells the story about self-acceptance and accpeting the others. The subject was transposed to our present days, which by their perfectly polished expectations, make our lives more difficult.
based on Nick Hornby Up in the Deep
Duration: 1h 40'
On New Year's Eve the lives of four strangers change forever. Precisely at the moment when they decided to give up.
The characters from Up in the Deep are not tragic heroes, they couldn't be. This performance is a critique of the era and the society we live in. Moreover, we see the presented problems and characters as being absolutely real and legitimate.
Dirty Business
Fear, disbelief, vulnerability and aggression stay tucked on the shelves of the souls. On the outside nothing is seen. We scratch the glaze in vain, we rarely see beyond the surface. Dirty windows. Ambiguous gestures. Scribbled messages. Opposite orders. Suddenly. We adjust to tears and to contrary smiles. We cling to opposite convictions. Can we still look each other straight in the eyes? Why do our thoughts stay with their eyes looking downwards?
Martin McDonagh The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The English, of Irish origin, Martin McDonagh writes his successful plays about far away Irish lands in a unique style. He depicts tragic, small destinies, in a limit-situation - apparently without an exit -, with a profound knowledge of the human nature, with dark humour, in a heart-breaking manner, often in terrifying colours. It is impressive, moving and funny.
"This little village called Leenane is very far from Timişoara, Novi Sad and even Budapest. But the events in this play are everyday ones, even in these places. I honesty hope that the viewer knows the changes of situations and the most dramatic moments in the play only by hearing. We rarely find amongst us someone so lucky/unlucky who hasn't lived himself or herself all the agony and the bizarre and profound beauty of the relationships between the interdependent and hopeless characters. Therefore, Leenane is here and we are there, in Leenane". - Upor László
Samuel Beckett Happy Days
"Oh I know it does not follow when two are gathered together in this way that because one sees the other the other sees the one, life has taught me that"
Happy Days speaks about problems, life situations and relationships. But it is important for the viewer to decide what he or she has seen.
Hajdu Szabolcs Times of peace
After the publication of his latest book, Langermann is asked to write a play. His father's death, the agitation of the burial preparations, the hidden conflicts of a family that has lost its balance, the stifling atmosphere of the society - all these are not exactly beneficial for the necessary peace required in order to create. The task taken becomes more and more difficult, taking unreal, fatal proportions.
Pintér Béla - Darvas Benedek Peasant Opera
Duration: 1h 20'
The essence of Pintér Béla's play Peasant Opera is very old. The archaic story of defying fate has the air of the Greek atmosphere. An action in the past decides our fate. A day, the story of a wedding which shows the human being in a funny-pathetic manner. At the same time beautiful, uplifting, humiliating, funny and tragic. - Szikszai Rémusz
Elżbieta Chowaniec Gardenia
Girls, women. Girls, young ladies, ladies, sluts, fairies, witches, princesses and bloody servants, aged prostitutes and spoiled dames. They are hungry, willing, they are fighting, smearing, hugging, screaming, crying, waltzing - four women. Four generations of women from here, the nearby Cracow, Poland, Central Europe. A slice of central-European history; fifty infernal years, with dreams that burst out and fade out again and again, break-ups, clashes, risings and hemorrhages. A destiny transmitted from a generation to another, through a particular feminine branch, the same as in Greek tragedies. Four portraits and crumbles of a continent behind them.
They have history in their suitcases, and the eternal woman, terrible but still wonderful.
Oleg & Vladimir Presnyakov Before The Flood
You buy a pack of chips and you find out that the end of the world is here. Or at least the Flood. If you're lucky you win a yacht. A yacht, which is in fact a boat. A raft. A trifle. While you have to take with you everything that matters. But what matters? Who matters? Do you matter? Is it better if that rain starts or not? Sooner or later we will find out. Just in case, buy a gorilla.
Sławomir Mrożek The Police
The Police created the ideal dream. Everybody has changed for the better. The last opposing individual is ready to give up the fight against the regime. But if in the country there's order, what is the purpose of police?
We are beating the mountain, forget about the boats! Thy art the flags, but what do thou know? It's not on peaks thou climbed, but on slops and wares. What verse and cowar': eternal are thou power! You don't know who belongs to whom, if it's a chameleon. Bat ih bin veri cul. Ja sui biutiful. The civilization swallows me entirely.
based on Karel Čapek Vagabondo
Duration: 45'
Karel Čapek's story - extremely actual these days - presents the destiny of a young man whose father - a redoubtable bandit - raises him in a monastery. The sensitive child, with a select education promises to his father, on his deathbed that he carries on the family tradition and will become a bandit. The attempt proves to be difficult for Vagabondo, the naïve hero. Instead of being the plunderer, he is the plundered one, and not only once. But what does it actually mean to be a bandit in everyday life? In the show created by the couple Peter Pashov and Zheni Pashova the puppets, the actors and the spectators are searching together for the answer to this question.
Henrik Ibsen Peer Gynt
The Hero in Ibsen's Peer Gynt is restless. He is searching for his own opportunities, he is eager to know more, but mortal, he is searching for answers to fundamental questions. Ibsen's poetic/philosophical world is transposed in a complex theatric language, in which dance, music and dialogue are melted. The story, at the limit of dream and reality, promises an unusual theatric experience, by means of harmony between the expressive images, sounds and acting.
