MITEM
Director: Farid Bikchantaev
MITEM
1 hours 40 minutes, without breaks.
A lonely, elderly woman looks at the fjords from her
window in exactly the same manner as she followed her husband, Asle, with her
eyes some decades earlier. The man was heading towards the open sea with his
boat – perhaps to die? The young and old selves of the characters appear on stage
for a few seconds together, to let us believe and hope that passing time is
only an illusion and the missing man is somehow present in the scene unfolding
from her memories. The avant-garde drama, A
Summer Day, was written by the world-famous representative of Norwegian
contemporary literature, Jon Fosse, one of the guests of MITEM. Both his prose
works and dramas are available in Hungarian, and several of his plays have been
staged in Hungary. The plot of A Summer
Day is "simple," as are the plots of his other works,
but on a more profound level there are fateful events that make his heroes
remember...