On May
Day The Physicists entertain the home-theatre viewers: on 1st of May at 7 pm
starts the premiere streaming on the Figura’s YouTube channel. Unlike previous
occasions this video will be available until Sunday midnight. The show is
recommended over 12 years, its duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
The
voting’s winner is Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s grotesque comedy which was presented
in 2015 .
The
play takes place in an idyllic luxury medical clinic, at a private sanatorium
where millionaires come to ease the burden of the century. The idyll is
suddenly disturbed by a series of sudden murders. Three of the clinic’s guests
are frequenters, scientists whom are only known even by the staff by the chosen
names of Newton, Einstein and Möbius, and who for some unknown reason have been
guests of the clinic for years on end. It is they around whom the threads of a
strange criminal case are woven that is the springing board for Dürenmatt’s
play.
Investigating
this crime is the starting point from which Dürenmatt’s comedy builds up to a
story being about one of the most important questions of the 20th century: that
of the responsibility of the individual. Are we responsible for the world that
as a consequence of our actions and groundbreaking discoveries is constantly
changing around us? What is to be done with an invention that can fundamentally
change the world but at the same time can also destroy with a simple push of a
button? Is the scientist responsible for the knowledge that due to his reason
and thinking becomes his property? – these are among others the questions
Figura’s play poses to the viewers.
The
play was directed by Albu István, who at this performance worked for the third
time with the company of Gheorgheni.
30 April 2020