The Nobel Laureate playwright’s first Hungarian premiere is produced by PanoDrama, an organization devoted to producing new international plays in Hungary and new Hungarian drama abroad. Jelinek’s first theatre work directly inspired by social events, Rod, Crook and Staff, was voted Best Play of the year in 1996. A racist’s bomb murdered four young Roma in the Austrian Burgenland in 1995, just because “they made the mistake of not adopting in time looks and names that we can relate to”. Jelinek stands against the crime committed by a racist who’s in the minority, but condemns even more the chorus of the hypocrite mourners of the majority, since thanks to them, life goes on as if nothing happened at all. The award-winning German-Hungarian film director, Robert Pejo’s first stage work draws on the theme of his film, Dallas Pashamende, but its form is defined by the poetic text, and was barely divided into roles by Elfriede Jelinek. Beyond the painfully timely subject matter – at least in Hungary –, PanoDrama’s production examines one of the most exciting phenomena of the Hungarian theatre: the appearance of young film directors on Hungarian stages, ranging from Mundruczó to Gigor.
Hungarian translation: HALASI Zoltán
With: CSÁKÁNYI Eszter, KASZÁS Ágnes, QUITT László, SCHERER Péter, STUBNYA Béla, SZALAY Marianna
Design: IZSÁK Lili
Dramaturgy: MERÉNYI Anna
Lighting design: CSONTOS Balázs
Assistant to the Director: TÜŰ Zsófia
Production Assistant: CSÓKA Tímea
Creative Producer: LENGYEL Anna
Directed by: PEJÓ Róbert
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