Aristophanes

Lysistrata or The City of Women


Main stage

Lysistrata
Hilda Péter
 
Myrrhini
Enikő Györgyjakab
 
Stratyllis
Júlia Albert
 
Caloniki
Andrea Vindis
 
Lampito
Eszter Tompa
 
Ismenia
Tünde Skovrán
 
Krytilli
Júlia Laczó
 
Athenian Woman
Melinda Kántor
 
Corinthian Woman
Réka Csutak
 
Spartan Woman
Andrea Kali
 
The Daughter of the Corinthian Woman
Éva Imre
 
Young Spartan Women
Noémi Daróczi, Krisztina Biró
 
Magistrate
Gábor Viola
 
Cinesias
Loránd Váta
 
Drakis
Miklós Bács
 
Philurgos
Lehel Salat
 
Phadrias
Ferenc Sinkó
 
Strynidoros
Alpár Fogarasi
 
The Spartan Herald
Szabolcs Balla
 
The Nurse
Róbert Laczkó Vass
 
The Senators
Szabolcs Balla, Levente Imecs
 
Lovers
Ferenc Sinkó, Eszter Tompa, Róbert Laczkó Vass, Andrea Vindis, Levente Imecs, Éva Imre
 
The Fool
Anikó Pethő

directed by
Dominique Serrand
 
dramaturg
András Visky, Noémi Krisztina Nagy
 
set design
Dominique Serrand
 
costume design
Dominique Serrand, Carmencita Brojboiu
 
director's assistant
Tom Dugdale
 
stage manager
Péter Mixtay, Imola Kerezsy
 
musical coordinator
Katalin G. Incze

Date of the opening: October 08, 2010

Adaptation by George Theodoridis
 
A play I had never seen.
Nor even read until late in my life.
A Catholic pupil during my childhood could not read in school a text of such sexuality, vulgarity and lack of morals, but only of Christian morality.
However, I regret not having read it earlier and having missed the shock-wave, the disturbing experience.
When I finally discover it, I am both stunned and comforted.
The awful representation of the elders, bitter and mean, the cynicism of the married women, the young people manipulating and lying for their own ends, and then this foolish idea, cynical too, that a sex strike could stop the war – Aristophanes offers a biting parody.
It is therefore with this regret at having discovered this play at such a late stage in my life, at a time when its cynicism comforted my own, that I feel like paying a tribute to my younger self, and having my memory reinvent this reading, as if it took place at the age, when the heart is agitated and fooled by very incomprehensible ideas. I like to believe naively that maybe a sex strike could really put an end to wars.
 
(Dominique Serrand)