Inspired by Bruno Schulz
August
Faculty of Arts in Hungarian: University of Arts Târgu-Mureş (RO), and Maladype Theatre Budapest (HU)
Running time 50 minutes. No interval.
Author and director Zoltán Balázs
Assistant director Ildikó Zoltán
Assistant dramaturg Bernardett Zárug
Assistant producer Zsuzsa Juraszek
Cast
Brigitta Dőry, Brigitta Erőss, Róbert Fekete, Simon Jáger, Ivett Andrea Lukács, Gáspár Mesés, Viktor J. Szabó, Míra Szilágyi, Lilla Zsenák
The Ukrainian-born Polish-Jewish writer of magic realism Bruno Schultz, a contemporary of Musil and Kafka, constructs a literary world through the perspective of childhood. The short story collection Cinnamon Shops from 1934 (later renamed as The Street of Crocodiles for the American edition), which inspired the production, is set in a small provincial town in Galicia and shows the decline of the Russian Empire.
The diploma performance of the acting students is based on the non-verbal stage language and encourages the performers to express their own wishes, desires and experiences. Be present and anything can happen, claims the director who stirs them towards the research development of individual movement techniques, body awareness and speech. The multiple award-winning performance is characterised by firm group scenes that build a synchronous parallelism and slide smoothly into tiny subjective intimacies. It is meticulously communicative and by hinting at socio-historical bitterness, intelligently witty.
Discussion after the performance: about the performance, process, school
