Performances
based on the works of Woody Allen Side Effects
"The one characteristic of "reality" is that it lacks essence. That is not to say it has no essence, but merely lacks it."
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
Zián & Kopik
Andres Mariano Ortega - Erős Ervin - Kiss Csaba - Gyarmati Kata Dangerous Liaisons
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Balaton - Elmúlik (Tudom, hogy tudod), lyrics: Kozma György
Sziámi - Száz bolha, lyrics: Müller Péter Sziámi
Balaton - Kész az egész, lyrics: Víg Mihály
Európa Kiadó - Romolj meg!, lyrics: Menyhárt Jenő
Spiró György Prah
"The text is a gem of the contemporary Hungarian drama, with beautifully depicted scenes from everyday life and thoroughly portrayed characters, whose representation requires a disciplined and complex scenic presence. One needs a hard inner force to examine his life, and Spiró is a master in its representation. "- says Gyarmati Kata.
"Spiró György is brilliant in portraying small people. The two protagonists vegetate at subsistence level, but suddenly their luck smiles: they hit the lottery jackpot. How do they react, how does their mentality change? We explore these rules of conduct. A person, facing unexpected change, gets scared, he tries tries to understand what happened. The heroes of the play start to analyze every moment spent together. The way they will with the situation, or rather with their own problems, it's a secret. " - says the director.
Gálovits Zoltán - Vass Richárd Woodhead
Adult puppet-show.
Woodhead wakes up next to a pile of wood and refuses to acknowledge the passing of time. He's left with nothing but the isolation, temptation, and cries in the wilderness. Woodhead can't remain passive, although he has only one responsibility: to wait for the miracle. Waiting and waiting since ancient times. We would think that nothing happens, but in our passivity and during our constant waiting something always comes up over which we can trip, into which we can kick, in which can get tangled. There is always something that makes the desert, the wilderness and the solitude bearable. We don't know for how long he has been waiting. He slowly gives up, but not before telling a joke or reciting a final poem. However pigheaded, he is lovable, at the same time predictable and unpredictable, naive and intelligent, innocent and guilty; he talks and talks, sometimes incoherently, sometimes clearly, sometimes too much, sometimes too little. A final long monologue, which we don't know if it's heard or not. A puppet is talking. This is the miracle itself. But he remains a puppet that is carried by the waves of this already written story. Woodhead: pigheaded and nothing more, but in this case this is all that he can be.
A. P. Chekhov The Cherry Orchard
Our withering memories plunge slowly in the muddy and insecure soil of our existence. Is it that illusionary nostalgia or real feelings awake within ourselves real affection? Each of us owns a Cherry Orchard and we try in vain to clear cut it. The Cherry Orchard is a metaphor. It is the metaphor of the indestructible that clings to us with a demonic power. And everything that is indestructible is ageless. The Cherry Orchard is hidden, as well as its owner, Ranevsky, behind an atemporal mask. Both are eternal, so they cannot be destroyed. Their power lies within their spirit. They defy time, create a bridge that links the past and the future and suggest that life is probably just one long expanded moment.
Gianina Cărbunariu mady-baby
mady-baby is a controversial and troubling show about three young persons who leave Romania for a country which is "cooler". The characters come from different social backgrounds, they have different goals and they leave their country for the Promised Land: Ireland. Without searching one another, their meeting is somehow unavoidable and crucial for the fate they choose for themselves. The three destinies intermingle and Mady, the main character, becomes the tool and then the victim of the two men. The show focuses on the girl's figure, her story is a revival one, based on such notions as good and sin, decay and redemption, egoism and sacrifice.
mady-baby is a show about how to build your own identity as an absorption of the other's identity, about the vitality which destroys and auto-destroys itself and about a humanity which is kept at the lower limit of being human.
Homérosz - Márai Sándor - Claudio Monteverdi The Return of Ulysses
If we were to summarize extremely succinct and simplified the Odyssey of Ulysses, the story would sound as follows: the hero stayed away from Ithaca for twenty years. During the first ten he fought in the Trojan war, while in the following ten he struggled to get home, to his family. His Odyssey can be tackled form multiple perspectives, but it remains at the same time concealed due to its richness. The Odyssey dates back to 8th c. BC and it is attributed to Homer. Along the centuries that passed since the genesis of the epopee, a number of literary, musical and film adaptation have been created, some of these merely retell the story, while others try even more: reinterpretations and transcriptions.
The performance from the Hungarian State Theatre "Csiky Gergely" Timișoara does not use only the Homeric epic, but it is also based on the novel Peace in Ithaca. The adaptation written by Márai Sándor proposes a special view, in which the mediation on Ulysses' fate almost destroys the mythical image of the hero. Ulysses' image defying the gods and the series of his adventures, are outlined through the reminiscences of his wife, Penelope and his son, Telemachus. Through their human, terrestrial, profane perspective we see a Man, who "sat at men's table, and slept in women's beds". But their memories emphasize more than that - two lives: one which was abandoned and another one which had not yet started, that is an existence without solution. During the twenty years of waiting, in Ithaca a new regime was installed, a life in which the one who returned, cannot find his place anymore, even if life spins around him, or, more precisely, around his absence. At the same time, during twenty years, under the impact of loses, hits and women, a personality developed, that cannot be integrated in the life that moved forward without him. The moment that Penelope and Telemachus had been waiting for so long does not come with Ulysess' return, but with his death. The profane dimension of the performance is complemented by the wonderful Baroque opera called The Return of Ulysses, composed by Claudio Monteverdi. This extends some of the moments in the story, expands the terrestrial space and time, respectively the scenic space, rendering a sacred aspect to the impulses and feelings.
Jimmy Roberts - Joe DiPietro I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Prometheus
"There are four legends concerning Prometheus.
According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed on his liver, which was permanently renewed.
According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it.
According to the third, his treachery was forgotten in the course of years, forgotten by gods, the eagles, forgotten by himself."
Prometheus, by Franz Kafka
Brothers Grimm Hansel and Gretel
