1h 50' without intermission
Ferenc Fandl
Attila Harsányi
Anna Mészöly
Júlia Fazakas
Tibor Gáspár
Dezső Szegedi
Erika Nádasy
Lehel Salat
Sándor Farkas
Valéria Kerekes
Mária Takács
directed by
Gábor Rusznyák
set designer
Gábor Rusznyák
costume design
Ildi Tihanyi
director's assistant
Ildikó Hadházy
stage manager
Réka Budai
prompter
Klára Bíró
The set designer and director were superb, Gábor Rusznyák making one better than the other. The opening or closing of parts of the wood-panelled wall, with pictures and openings at the back of the box-like space, is the beginning or end of a scene. Everything is inside this "box"
Juga Péter: Szélesvásznú skandináv élethazugság [Wide Scope Scandinavian Lie about Life], Deszkavízió
Because the actors really use the bizarre meaning of the first names and surnames, which sound Norwegianand are pronounced correctly. And that's what it's all about (in the theatre): the functionality of the artificial, the way the non-natural becomes natural.
[...] one of the best interpretations of Ibsen in Hungary in recent years.
Bazsányi Sándor: A lekvárt megedzik [The Jam is Refined], revizoronline.com
Hjalmar lives modestly but happily with his wife, his young daughter, and his elderly father, who makes his ruined life content by caring for sick and injured animals. The family's only regret is that their daughter, Hedvig, is rapidly losing her sight, and according to doctors, she will be blind by the time she reaches adolescence. After fifteen years, Gregers reunites with his childhood friend, Hjalmar. Gregers' father, a former business partner of old Hjalmar, is now successful and wealthy. Gregers cannot bear to see Hjalmar as a shadow of the man he once was. Determined to bring order to his friend's life, he confronts him with the lie he is living. However, the revelation of their shared past has fatal consequences for both fathers and sons...