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Adrienne Darvay Nagy: I DIE, YOU LIVE. Hamlet’s Theater – Harag’s Legacy
Forty years after György Harag handed over his legacy as artistic director of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj - which he had turned into a unique Transylvanian creative workshop - to his chosen successor, this volume, entitled Az idő lenyomata (Imprint of Time), can be seen as a continuation of the 230-year-old “Horatio book.” From the perspective of our oldest theatre, it primarily deals with the last quarter of the 20th century, including the consequences of the historic turning point of December 1989 and its impact 35 years ago, up to the first György Harag Memorial Days. To use the terminology of televised theater: in the previous long shot, the second volume presents a “closer shot” of the “Hamlet-centric” history of theatre, focusing on the “triumvirate” of directors who once lived in the same courtyard at 4 Köteles Sámuel Street in Targu Mureș, who were also the most significant leaders of the 20th-century theatre reform within Hungarian language theatre in Romania, which is now eighty years old. The aim of my 20th independent volume is to use “the highlights and brief chronicles of the era” to hold up a mirror to the current status of theinternationally renowned Hungarian Theatre of Cluj on the 100th anniversary of the birth of György Harag.
Adrienne Darvay Nagy
"WHEN PLAY BECOMES REALITY”
Hungarian Academy of Arts – GEO-ÖKOFILM KFT., 2022
52´
Director-cinematographer: István Dala
Producer: László Hollós
Writer, editor-reporter: Orsolya Huszár
Editor: Bence Bartos
Sound engineer: Sándor Faludi
The Hungarian Academy of Arts has organized a year of remembrance in 2020 in honor of the great director György Harag, an outstanding and irreplaceable artist of the Transylvanian Hungarian-language theatre. The documentary film When Play Becomes Reality was made as part of the remembrance. In addition to contemporary performance footage and archive material, the film features testimonies from colleagues, successors, friends and the director’s widow about everyday life in the theatre of that era, Harag’s working methods, his private life and the boundless love for his fellow human beings that radiated from his core and that permeated his entire life and theatre profoundly.