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

PROMETHEUS'22

hommage à Beckett

July
1
Friday
20:00
July
2
Saturday
20:00
July
3
Sunday
20:00

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