Adaptation after Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound by Ágnes KALI and Gábor TOMPA

PROMETHEUS'22

hommage à Beckett

Main stage

HU

RO

EN

12+

1h 30' without intermission | Performance in Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian and English with Hungarian, Romanian and Slovenian subtitles

Olympos Stage

Protagonist
Igor Samobor

Zeus, the Director
Gábor Viola

Hera, the Director’s Assistant
Cătălina Mihai

Luke, the Lighting Technician
Áron Dimény

Prometheus Bound

Prometheus
Igor Samobor

Kratos
Tamás Kiss / Florin Aioane / Domen Novak

Bia
Anikó Pethő

Hephaestus
Áron Dimény

Io
Ecaterina Lupu / Eva Jesenovec / Eszter Román

Hermes
Mirela Pană

Oceanus
Zsolt Bogdán

Chorus

Chief correspondent
Dana Dumitrescu

Influencer
Andrea Vindis

Radio reporter
Ecaterina Lupu / Eva Jesenovec / Eszter Román

Camera operator
Domen Novak / Florin Aioane / Tamás Kiss

Expert
Florin Aioane / Domen Novak / Tamás Kiss

Journalist
Melinda Kántor

directed by
Gábor Tompa

assistant director
Erwin Șimșensohn

éléments de décor et costumes
Carmencita Brojboiu

original music
Vasile Șirli

dramaturgy
Ágnes Kali

choreography
Ferenc Sinkó

video
Radu Daniel

set and costume assistant
Gyopár Bocskai

stage manager
Réka Zongor

Date of the opening: July 01, 2022

Prometheus'22 wants to be a meditation of the condition of the intellectual in the 21st century. In the digitalized and powerfully manipulated news network and social media truth became over-relativized and even fact-checks can end up being considered as fake news. In an extremely ideologized and divided world, where dialogue became almost impossible and debates are reduced to extreme reactions, hate speech became a daily routine, often fueled by governments which support extreme political ideas. In these conditions the role of the intellectuals – scientists, doctors, artists – becomes more difficult but also more responsible, that of observing the world with an objective eye and share their knowledge to the people even with the risk of being persecuted in the same way as Prometheus has been in the mythological time.

The performance tries to approach to the myth of Prometheus from a more ironic perspective exploring its significance in the context of our contemporary world.

Gábor Tompa