3h 25’ with two intermission
Johanna, Bogár Barbara, Budizsa Evelyn, Gál Ágnes, Kovács Éva, Laczkó Tekla, László Zita, Méhes Kati, Rappert-Vencz Stella Bándi
Johanna Bándi
Gábor Rappert-Vencz
Gyula Gaál
Gergő Frumen
Zsolt Orbán
András Hatházi
Attila Zsolt Péter
Éva Kovács
Evelyn Budizsa
Nándor Poszet
Sándor Varga
Barbara Bogár
Gyula Gaál
Zsolt Orbán
directed by
Sardar Tagirovsky
set and costume design
Anna Kupás
dramaturgy
Sardar Tagirovsky
music composed by
László Bakk-Dávid
musical coordinator
Annamária Manfrédi
light design
Sardar Tagirovsky, Dániel Székhelyi
Réka Pável, Bálint Szigeti
Bálint Szigeti
makeup
Anna Kupás, Blanka Moldován
Réka Pável
stage manager
Ritta Szabó
assistant director
Dániel Székhelyi
The production presents the audience with an astonishingly grandiose vision, in which the controversial figure of Rasputin is cast in an almost Christ-like role, in the light of the madness we call the twentieth century. The faces on either side of the set, the victims of the various massacres, are, at one point in the performance, named on the display, but not with the intention of mere deterrence: we are made to realise that we have done this to ourselves, in this terribly unpalatable ticking time that, on Sardar Tagirovsky's stage measures our actions, sometimes as a sound effect, sometimes as a metronome of a tilted chair.
Judit Ungvári: Az idő pillangó–hatása [The Butterfly Effect of Time], Kisvárdai lapok
People are always attracted to the gift of prophecy, the prophet’s person. In ancient Greek dramas, one can catch glimpses of the prophet. According to the values of that time, science is equivalent of this profession, ability. But it's equivalent to the theatre, too. Which has a huge value in the eyes of the contemporary people. The theatre meant festival and ritual for most of the citizens. This holiday gave the opportunity to connect higher forces. Our modern world often questions this this ”higher power”. A lot of fake people lives back to the people’s faith. It is a daily experience. We are going to fight for survive. It could not have been very different at the beginning of the 20th century, when everything was transformed, everything that the human being caught up as part of reality. The world of science and money placed the focus somewhere else.