‘Why am I not guilty when I am?’ This unanswerable question is in the
centre of this dreamlike performance, which takes its roots from
slapstick comedy, from the dazzling spirits and magic spells of
Shakespeare and from the thrilling nightmares of the Baroque.
At the beginning of the play, the two guards wake up the sleeping K.
From then on, what has been so far usual and accepted suddenly proves
to be senseless, doubtful and alien. The personal world is transformed
into a strange world. Something horrifying emerges from even the most
familiar things. In this tragedy, it is not death but life that turns
out to be dreadful.
Franz Kafka elsewhere writes: ‘The original sin, the ancient vice of
man is the stubborn accusation of someone else of committing the
original sin at his expense.’ K. is guilty in this sense, and he
realises his inescapable fate in the end and, escorted by hangmen,
voluntarily bows to death.
Zugszínház is devoted to a theatrical language of gestures. They try to
reach the achievement of epic theatre when gestures can be quoted the
same way as words can. Various puppet-like motions reveal the vision of
alien, non-human forces and of the strange powers that command people’s
lives in this grotesque Kafka-adaptation. |
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Cast |
Balogh Bulcsú, Bondor Zsuzsa, Fűri Rajmunkd, Horváth András, Keleti András, Mézes Csaba, Tizedes Anita, Varjú Lívia |
music |
Keleti András, Szinovszky Áron |
adapted by |
Mézes Csaba |
directed by |
Hollós Péter |
stage design |
Balogh Bulcsú, Balogh Ferenc |
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