29 March 2009
The plot of
Leonce and Lena take place in the garden of humanity. Here it is that king Popo
tries to rule with the help of abstract concepts, here it is where Valerio
seeks the happiness of everyday life and it is here the Leonce and Lena chase
love as well. The plot is no doubt the drama of adulthood (just like the big
forerunner Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet). Leonce and Lena try to hide behind
masks from this dread and this is why they set out on their journey. The
journey in Büchner’s play is symbolic: it casts the characters into their own
fates, gives them a taste of their own personalities that bubbles genuinely to
the surface, the same ones that ironically coincide with those ideals that they
themselves are trying to run away from. Leonce beyond the existential dread of
adulthood is also haunted by the mutual recognition of himself and Lena in the
surrounding lying-finicking world’s life coaching methods that boils down into
an endless play. The question then becomes: where do we run from here and are you
allowed to care for this newly realized self – nothing remains, but the
interpersonal world of games, an artificial two-person space in which both can
mindlessly grasp their bittersweet love – the rest is fiction and unrealized
dreams.
Leonce
Lena
Valerio
Maid
Rosetta
Peter, king of Popo
Master of ceremonies
President of the state council
Court master
Dramaturgy:
Ungvári Zrínyi Ildikó
Set and costume design:
Laczó Henriette
Music:
Cári Tibor
Directed by: Béres László