Béla Pintér and Company
Korcsula
(With Hungarian and English subtitles!)
Cast:
Szilvia Baranyi, Sándor Bencze, Tamás Deák, Éva Enyedi, Antal Kéménczy, Béla Pintér, László Quitt, Tünde Szalontay, Zsófia Szamosi, Szabolcs Thuróczy
Writer: Béla Pintér
Set Design: Béla Péintér, Bojan Gagic
Costume Design: Mari Benedek
Lights: Zoltán Gyorgyovics
Sound: János Rembiczki
Assistant: Kinga Szőts, Katalin Csizmadia
Composer: Ferenc Darvasi
Director: Béla Pintér
„Last year I was contacted by Branko Brezovec who said that they would like for us to have the premier of our next production at the EUROKAZ Festival in Zagreb. The play should in some way be related to Croatia, but it would be best if it was about Croatian-Hungarian relations. We accepted, since it seemed like a great challenge. We managed to find a really „original” topic: a Hungarian family is on holiday on the Croatian seaside. Let the play’s title be the name of an island: Korcsula. None of us have been there, but the word itself is very telling. In Hungarian „korcs” means „bastard”, „mongrel”, „hybrid”, and also has a feeling of being mixed, of being blended. Various types of people live on this island. They talk a peculiar, mixed language, live peculiar love lives and have peculiar, disconcerting karaoke parties at night. What a strange holiday this will be! A holiday with the Sun unmoving in the sky, with the sea not endless, but hopeless.” (Béla Pintér)
„I have no idea what kind of theatre Béla Pintér will be doing a quarter of a century from now when he will be in his sixties, but now he is my Imre Kálmán. He has created a unique, always recognizable style, and is running the most enjoyable theatre in all the land. Just goes to show you that my old theatrical vocabulary is out of date already, because I will always enjoy theatre if it is up to par, though I’m not sure if I will laugh as well. Pintér’s theatre is a theatre of laughter. It doesn’t entice the masses as the olden operetta theatre had (of course, no theatre today can do that), but it does have a small audience of laughing critics. This audience is just as important as the characters onstage: as Pintér says, without them there wouldn’t be theatre at all. Because those who want to make the audience laugh take their work seriously. And not just in the ticket office. (Andrea Tompa, Színház)
Date of the Performance: 2
Venue: Szkéné Theatre (Budapest, XI. Műegyetem rakpart 3. II. floor)