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THEALTER 2004 / July 23, Friday

 

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Zugszínház: The Trial - -

23. Friday 18:00     Old Hungária Hotel

140'

‘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.

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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