Sputnik Shipping Company
Council House Stories 0.1
- World Premier -
MU Theatre, 2008. november 29. (Saturday), 19:00
(120 minutes, without interval. In Hungarian and English.)
Cast:
Gábor Fábián, Lőte Koblicska, Zoltán Szabó, Simon Tóth, Péter Jankovics, Rozi Székely, Anna Hay, Gabriella Hámori, József Gyabronka, Péter Galambos, Erzsi Kis, Eszter Csákányi, Andor Lukáts
Writers: Viktor Bodó, István Tasnádi, András Vinnai
Dramaturg: Tamás Turai
Assistant: Eszter Fülöp
Technician: Gábor Keresztes
Costume Design: Fruzsina Nagy
Director: Viktor Bodó
Viktor Bodó graduated from the College of Theatre and Film Arts, after studying direction and acting. He was a member of Krétakör and the Katona József Theatre, and now heads his own company, Sputnik.
The Sputnik Shipping Company – was founden in January, 2008. Its first production was Dead Souls, which was finalized in Romania this autumn after many different versions. Last summer was the premier of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Theatre Base of Zsámbék. The company’s two most important goals are the research of behaviour and character, and this season’s first project, headed by Pál Göttinger – working title: The railway surveyor – strives to do just that. As a part of the Renaissance Year the company is preparing to hold special university classes, and plans to later organize its own chorus, film club, free university and round table discussions.
“Downtown Budapest, let’s say a council house in the seventh district… Who lives there, and what do they do? Things of the most extreme nature can happen within metres of each other. If we make these walls see-through, we get to see a most shocking organism. If we only show reality, without any kind of censorship, only depict what happens in a council house in Budapest, it can be the basis of many genuine stories, genuine characters. We can use anything that surrounds us. Character diaries, observation, interviews and Internet blogs, life viewed through a telescope, sound recordings, personal accounts, games of self-examination, telephone talks and photos and newspaper articles, TV and radio news.”
“Bodó has a feeling for life, as well as something to say. […] He has an exceptional effect on any material he works with, and thus always creates something different out of it. The paradox of life-feeling versus having something to say I think can be solved in this way: his inspiring exceptional intensity in his co-workers, and being an exceptional crafter of rebellion without direction. The only question remaining is whether he will overcome the world’s madness with his theatre, or will he simply ad to it, and sometimes stir it up, like the witches stir their own potion in Macbeth.” (Tamás Koltai, ÉS)
Date of the performance: 2008. November 29. (Saturday), 19:00
Venue: MU Theatre, Sputnik Workshop (Budapest, XI. Kőrösy József utca 17.)