Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre of Subotica: The Comedy Of Man
based on János Sziveri’s life and his works
1 December 17.00
Atrium Movie-Theatre
80’ without intermission
in Hungarian with English subtitles
photo: Edvárd Molnár
Cast:
Márta Béres
Gabriella Crnkovity, guest artist
Anikó Kiss guest artist
Gábor Mészáros
Imre Elek Mikes
Zoltán Pletl
Dramaturg: Kornélia Góli, guest artist
Visual design: Péter Polgár, guest designer
Production: Andrea Csonti, Szebasztián Szvitlik, Daniel Radić
Composer: Árpád Bakos guest artist
Contributed to the recordings:
Géza Kucsera, Jr.: sax, sound design
Ervin Pálfi: double bass
Miroslav Jovančić: violin
Director and choreographer: Margaréta Táborosi
“WHO –The performance is based on János Sziveri’s poems. Existence and poetry, irony and resignation, prophecies and abstraction – the unique voice of the poet from Vojvodina can be heard in the play performed by the company of András Urbán, an artist from Vojvodina, who considers theatre a specific but also all-artistic, and not in the least ideological action. Margaréta Táborosi, the director, who also comes from Vojvodina, is active as a director and an actress. She attends the theatre choreographer and director class headed by Csaba Horváth at the Theatre and Film University.
WHAT – The fundamental aim of the formal language of the performance is to reformulate in the language of the theatre and in a picturesque way the atmospheres and emotions describing the atmosphere of Hungary before the political changes laid down by the poet. In his poems, Sziveri sensitively describes the mental state of the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain. His poetry is closely related to the art of the alternative oppositional underground music groups active before the political changes.
WHY – Although they work with poems, the company and the director lay the emphasis on theatre language and not on the words of the poet. Regarding its tools, it is based on elements of motion theatre, stage images composed with strong lightscenics and grotesque humor. The carefully composed stage images form a well-defined dramatic unity through which we can accompany the ageing hero from the time he becomes conscious of himself through illness and loves, until his death. His death is exactly as suggestively ironic as the performance itself.” (István Ugrai)
Tickets
http://www.atriumfilmszinhaz.hu/jegyek/2-uncategorised/79-jegyvasarlas-4
For more information:
http://www.kosztolanyi.org/Eloadasok/0/190
Critics:
http://7ora7.hu/programok/az-ember-komediaja/nezopont
http://www.revizoronline.com/hu/cikk/4612/23-thealter-szeged-elso-es-masodik-nap/
http://www.magyarszo.com/hu/1952/esemenynaptar_szinhaz/95852/Az-ember-kom%C3%A9di%C3%A1ja.htm