11 March 2007
In Vienna in
the year 1558 Péter Bornemisza published his work entitled Tragedy in
Hungarian based on Electra of Sophocles. Over the years its colloquial name
became simply Hungarian Electra. Tragedy was a marvelous novelty in its time -
thirty-forty years before Shakespeare. The value of the Hungarian Electra today
is that it greets us from afar, from the lowest depths, from the amalgam of
roots it brings the message of the ancient traditions all the while it’s
meaning being just as relevant.
The novelty
of this production is that it does not feature the classic form of casting. The
same character is played by numerous actors, the same way as all of us are made
from the same ingredients, yet all of
us are different.
Prince Orestes
Electra, king Agamemnon
Chrysothemis, younger sister of Electra
Queen Clytemnestra
King Aegistus
Parasitus, the king’s slave
Dajka, maid of Orestes
King Agamemnon
Dramaturgy:
Katona Imre
Bocskay Csilla
Scenography:
Katona Imre
Directed by: Katona Imre