1, 2, 3, 4, ...., 20, 21!
All said.
This was the official opening ceremony of Thealter'11.
There was a huge interest in Pintér Béla and Company's Never Return Again. Tickets sold out two days before the performance, "standing tickets" for the lucky ones. I missed out on this one. I met the piano tuner, Zsófia Szamosi, who played also in Tuesday's docudrama and I could hear some intriguing melodies of the capitalist
play.
Maybe next time the secret reveals.
The Mother's Face is Dark as Marsh
I was really looking forward to Monchichi Study Group's 16+ puppet performance. I love this genre, hence, I was somewhat disappointed. Strong puppets, strong, revolting plot. But the puppeteers remained too static and there was no direct link between the scenes. Some pictures made no sense to me. Sudden cuts in the music, and still not vigorous enough. It's a pity, since these puppets had a strong potential.
The show was about a huge, disgusting Mother, a forlorn, pervert-looking husband (who could be mistaken as her son, really) a cow and a new love. Hey, eco-bio-fans, here's your veggie commercial: the husband feeds the Mother with nourishing milk of the cow, and she bears a baby. Then the husband gives her the meat of the cow and at the delivery the foetus turns out to be dead and the monstrous Mother passes away, too. New spring, new love follows.
Nóra, a perfect bedtime story
Ibsen's A Doll's House has been interpreted so many times that there can't be much new to it. Last night's play from Tirgu Mures did not show any revolutionary ideas either. We are put into the middle of the story, we get some modern twists, senseless nudity and a reality-show-like ending. It was not a good idea to use it as a late night drama, half of the audience fell asleep.
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Did you know that during the festival Rádió Mi turns into the official Thealter Radio? They broadcast talks and reports from 3 to 7 pm on 89.9 or via internet - yet, they staff remains attentive the whole evening. I am looking forward to today's talks: with students of the HMG, who make a street theater, as every year; with last night's performers, with the participants of one of the workshops. We also get an insight to some of the Thursday-shows and get information about the latest news on the Tűzraktér in Budapest. This year almost exclusively in Hungarian, sorry.
I might go and see the one-(wo)man-show in the infamous Csillag (~Star) prison, where the biggest "stars" of the Hungarian criminals are. Wish me good luck!
RED - GREEN
