Miroslav Krleža

Leda


Main stage

Knight Oliver Urban
Ervin Szűcs
 
Klanfar
András Hatházi
 
Melita
Enikő Györgyjakab
 
Aurel
Zsolt Bogdán
 
Klara
Emőke Kató
 
Gentlaman
Attila Orbán
 
Fanny
Réka Csutak
 
Bobočka
Andrea Vindis
 
Waiter
Salanţă Vasile
 
Valet
Zoltán Horváth

Ladies' choir: Rita Sigmond, Melinda Kántor, Andrea Vindis
Painters, Company of the ladies: Szabolcs Balla, Balázs Bodolai, Alpár Fogarasi
Shadows of Knight Oliver Urban: Szabolcs Balla, Balázs Bodolai

Music performed by JAZZYBIRDS (András Szép - piano, Attila Antal - doublebass, Domokos Csergő - tambour, Zoltán Réman - saxophone)


directed by
Robert Raponja
 
dramaturg
András Visky
 
set and costume design
Carmencita Brojboiu
 
choreography
Ferenc Sinkó
 
music composed by
Massimo Brajković
 
director's assistant
Róbert Molnár
 
stage manager
Róbert Molnár
 

Date of the opening: march 08, 2014
Date of opening: 8 March 2014
Duration: 2 hours 50 minutes with intermission


Leda is the only drama from the cycle concerning the Glembay family which author Miroslav Krleža described as a “love play” and, later, a comedy. Closing the huge “Glembay” cycle in a humourous way, Leda begins after the sexual act of the main characters, and missteps follow each other rhythmically throughout the play. Leda is actually a love play, a play of the body and of words with love and with its nuances and variations, depending on what the interests and caprices of the representatives of the bourgeois and the aristocracy require. According to Krleža, this segment of society is “condemned to death” after the October Revolution.
The decadent spirit of the drama and the hedonism of the characters is rounded off by the ladies of the street who hunt for customers, while at their "workplace", in the foggy scenery of the streets, intrigues are developed between the last of the Glembays and the ones to whom they are drawn by their desires or interests.

Robert Raponja