Krisztián Gergye Company
A joint production of Bárka Theatre, the Krisztián Gergye Company, the Budapest Autumn Festival and MU Theatre.
photo: Dusa Gábor
Actor: Krisztián Gergye
Actress: Melinda Virág
The other players:
Andrea Spolarics, Anikó Varga, Olga Varjú, Tibor Pásztor, Gábor Szabó, Balázs Dévai
Set design, scenography: Krisztián Gergye
Costumes: Móni Béres
Dramaturge: Melánia Miklós
Assistant to the director: Eszter Hajós
Stage-manager: Zsolt Petrik
Premiere: 17th October, 2009
The play Funeral by Péter Nádas premiered at the Budapest Autumn Festival as the second part of Krisztián Gergye’s in-depth Trilogy-study. The two performances are strictly joint together but not conditioning each other.
In Funeral the Actor and the Actress are interpreted by two dancers, Krisztián Gergye and Melinda Virág, and it starts out from the author’s instruction written to his play Encounter according to which three musicians must accompany the performance which can be accomplished only if the acting and the musical constructions are able to meet. The present stage direction applies this concept to Funeral but it changes the relations. In the sounding milieu of the original text of the play being read out by the three pairs of actors of Encounter the performance becomes a unique experiment: it examines the relations, the boundaries, the crossovers and team-work between what is traditionally considered as non-choreographed, „open” dance and prose theatre as means of expression in performance art and thus, it also inquires into the nature of the theatre.