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THEALTER 1999 / August 01, Sunday

 

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Péter Halász: She Who Once Was The Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife - -

01. Sunday 19:00     Chamber Theatre

150'

In Péter Halász's play, She Who Once Was The Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife, we can get an insight into a world so ruthless that it is almost ridiculous. Those who know the works of Péter Halász, the Hungarian-born actor, director and the founder of the Squat and Love Theatres, would expect him to do bizarre, perfectly visualised and structured performances. But never did he form his Ð often very cruel Ð visions into such an affectionate understanding as in this play. Péter Halász shows us touching memories of his grandmother, played by himself. The old lady's one leg is shorter than the other, she lives like a petrified Methuselah in this malevolent world that conspired to strike her down, tumble down on her and torture her, while she recalls her life. All these take place in a little, messy bedroom from which she shouts, cursing and quarrelling, to her grandson, Péter...
The Grandmother's memories are told in the sometimes ghostly voice of a smart, young woman. The story of the young woman is told by a little girl who does not realise the tragic decline of the family and the whole world. ... In our times only a few theatre-makers are able to evoke so simple images, and to manipulate them with such magic.
 
(The New York Times, June 18, 1992)

Cast

Halász Péter, Horváth Virgil, Kari Györgyi, Üveges Réka

music

Johann Strauss

directed by

Halász Péter, Seth Tillet

costume

Agnes Santha

assistant

Juristovszky Sosa

author

Halász Péter, Seth Tillet

stage design

Halász Péter, Seth Tillet

 
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