Litera presents
a play in relay
Trafó, 20th November 8.00 PM - premiere!
photo: Valuska Gábor
Players:
Kriszta, 20-year-old sexy acting student - Judit Rezes
Erika, baby-faced demon who kills somebody every night – Erika Pereszlényi
Natália Hunger, 76-year-old retired registrar (midwife) - Kati Lázár
Szilvia, 45-50-year-old woman, on the verge of a nervous breakdown - Annamária Láng
Laci, around 40, teaching English to the uneployed - Simon Szabó
Director: László Keszég
Dramaturge: Ildikó Lőkös
Video-sound-music: Dj Sanyi és Vj Unflyable
We are on the fourth floor of a downtown apartment building, in a flat which has been converted into a language school where Laci, a teacher of about 40, teaches English to the unemployed. There are four female students of various ages in his group . . . In order to find out what happens to them you should attend this extremely humorous, exciting play written by five authors, and performed by stormy actors in a stormy stage direction. The radio play based on the play as well as a staged reading of it have already achieved great success, so our present, an hour and a half long premiere of it promises to be an even more special experience.
Litera—an on-line literary journal—asked five contemporary playwrights in March 2009, to write one single play, by taking turns, called Hungarian Relay Race, using characters defined in advance. Each author had to choose and develop a character to be included in the play. Thus Laci (János Háy), Natália Hunger (Péter Kárpáti, later succeeded by András Forgách), Erika (István Tasnádi), Szilvia (Virág Erdős) and Kriszta (László Garaczi) became the characters of this cast of five. The authors each had one week to complete their own assignment.
Today’s Hungarian reality, typical Hungarian characters and situations—as seen in a distorting mirror.
http://litera.hu/ - http://literastafeta.blog.hu/ - http://www.trafo.hu