Béla Pintér and Company: Our Secrets
1 December 2013. 20.00
Szkéné Theatre
115’ without intermission
in Hungarian with English simultaneous translation
Photo: Csaba Mészáros
Cast:
István Balla Bán: Zoltán Friedenthal
Dr Elvira Szádeczky, György Pánczél: Eszter Csákányi
Kata: Hella Roszik
Timike: Éva Enyedi
Bea Zakariás: Zsófi Szamosi
Imre Tatár: Béla Pintér
Szujó, Waiter, Pogány: Szabolcs Thuróczy
Ferenc Tatár, Ági: Angéla Stefanovits
Borbíró: György Póta
Konkoly: Gábor Pelva
Musicians:
Gábor Pelva: violin, viola, guitar
György Póta: synthesizer, double-bass, viola
Dramaturg: Éva Enyedi
Costume designer: Mari Benedek
Costumes designer’s assistant: Julcsi Kiss
Stage: Gábor Tamás
Lighting: László Varga
Sound: István Simon
Props: László Quitt
Finances: Gyula Inhaizer
Production manager: Anna Hidvégi
Director’s assistant: Rozi Hajdú
Playwright and director: Béla Pintér
Audience advisory – restricted to adults only.
Premier on 28 September 2013.
Supported by the Ministry of Human Resources of Hungary, National Cultural Fund of Hungary, Szkéné Theatre
“WHO – The 15-year-old company has one of the greatest traditions in the independent theatrical scene. In the past season they have inaugurated a new stage, so now their performances can be seen in Átrium Film-Theatre as well, besides Szkéné. In addition to that, they have established their own audience. Béla Pintér’s unique style and special form world attracts more and more people.
WHAT – Our Secrets is a kind of arrival at the reality of the present day. Not only because of pressing questions like the informer past or human helplessness against its own instincts, but primarily because it shows how every value can turn into its opposite and how power, which finds its way into our everyday life, can make our existence unbearable.
WHY – The amalgamation of personal, professional and state secrets become a kind of historical reader in the performance. The characters of the production set at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s live their lives. The inhumanity of “human-faced” socialism where even “the walls have ears” and the use of emotions and personal tragedies as the basis for blackmail are made credible by the actors’ excellent performances. The production which combines banal with grotesque and realistic elements with fiction reaches to our days recounting the social consequences of the (due to the highest political will) undiscussed recent past. The performance represents the strengths of the company from all sides (direction of plot and acting, movements, music and atmosphere creation). It can be considered a certain cross section of the work of Béla Pintér and Company.”(István Ugrai)
Tickets
http://www.szkene.hu/online-jegyrendeles
For more information:
http://www.pbest.hu/hu/fooldal/52-titkaink-sbemutato-2013-szeptember-28
Critics:
http://www.revizoronline.com/hu/cikk/4722/pinter-bela-titkaink-pinter-bela-es-tarsulata-szkene/
http://www.kortarsonline.hu/2013/10/szinhaz-pinter-bela-titkaink/17726
http://vanyabacsi.blog.hu/2013/10/15/pinter_bela_soha_nem_sikerult_meg_ennyire_jol
http://vanyabacsi.blog.hu/2013/09/29/pinter_bela_valaszol_az_ugynokkerdesre