Master Freddy: Seres István (Pipu)
Lil’Pea: Borsos Beáta
Dizzy Doll: Bartha Zsuzsanna
Mater Freddy’s crew:
piano: Préda-Kovács Zsolt
guitar: Szokola Vince
violin: Szabó János Bence
drums: Vígh István
Master Freddy’s staff:
lights: Szabó Gábor
music: Préda-Kovács Zsolt
director: Benkő Imola Orsolya

“Every town has an Elm Street!” (Freddy Krueger)
“Every person has a private Freddy.“ (Imola Orsolya Benkő)

The latest performance of Szeged Focus Workshop is based on Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street series, and revolves around the legendary character of Freddy Krueger. The key pillar of the performance is Freddy’s motive and motto: kill innocence! Every town has an Elm Street where slaughter, the ultimate elimination of childhood innocence and naivety, takes place day and night. Analogous to the City, the performance is set in the City of Soul, while the Dead End of Soul stands for Elm Street. Master Freddy embodies the parody of Freddy Krueger, the Monster lurking in the soul, taking various humorous shapes. Master Freddy confronts the teenagers, who partly live in the security of their childhood, who daydream and rely on their naive fantasies, with their secretly hidden inner Monsters and their perpetual anxieties. The little girls face and fight their own Monsters in their dreams. Their anxieties may seem foolish at first, but these are well-known fears, recurring adolescent nightmares haunting all of us: the feeling of being ugly and emotionally defenceless resulting from our changing body image.

The performance aims at displaying how to kill childhood naivety and innocence with the help of our inner Monster (Freddy). When we grow up, we get rid of our naivety, give in to social standards and spend our whole life with our Monsters (Freddies). They either defeat us or we defeat them, which makes us stronger, and with which our childhood primal-trust and naivety disappears forever, or transforms into a kind of playfulness, which evokes ever-present nostalgia to our childhood.

Szeged Focus Workshop was established in 2002 by the current art director Imola Orsolya Benkő. Their previous performances have achieved success in various theatres and festivals both in Hungary and abroad. Good Bye, Sweet Naivety! was commissioned and supported by MASZK Association.

www.focusmuhely.hu

Supported by: Szeged MJV, MASZK Egyesület (Szeged)
Media support: Factory Creative Studio (Szeged)