Maxim Gorky

The Lower Depths

Hungarian translation: Annamária Radnai

Studio Performance in the Main Hall
RO
EN
12+
3h 15' with intermission

Kostoloff
András Hatházi / Attila Orbán
 
Vassilisa
Imola Kézdi
 
Natasha
Éva Imre
 
Vaska Pepel
Gábor Viola
 
Kleeshtsh
Loránd Farkas
 
Anna
Júlia Laczó
 
Nastya
Anikó Pethő
 
Boobnoff
Sándor Keresztes
 
The Baron
Ervin Szűcs
 
Satine
Miklós Bács
 
The Actor
Áron Dimény
 
Luka
Zsolt Bogdán
 
The Tartar
Péter Árus

directed by
Yuri Kordonsky
 
set and costume design
Dragoș Buhagiar
 
dramaturg
András Visky
 
director's and dramaturg's assistant
Noémi Vajna
 
designer's assistant
Ioana Popescu
 
correpetition
Zoltán Horváth
 
stage manager
Réka Zongor
Date of the opening: October 07, 2016

In Gorky’s playwriting canon The Lower Depths is the most inspired, contradictory, beautiful and relevant play. The play echoes the world we live in today, on social, political and cultural levels. Loneliness of the individual, loneliness of a social group, loneliness of a nation, a country, and the constant battle about what it means to be individual and what it means to be part of a society – are all present in it.
The Lower Depths paints the world at the limit of disappearance, at the limit of collapse. The characters are people who have no home, no families, no money, no means for existence, no jobs, no hope for the future, they are at the very end of the limit. They live in a world where God almost doesn’t exist. So we ask ourselves, how far can humanity go before it ceases to exist?
Yuri Kordonsky