National Theatre, Budapest, 6-28. April 2024.
Oh, is there no place, sacred poesy,
Left for thee in this dull, grey world of prose?
(Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man)
AUDIENCE MEETINGS
National Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
Director: Attila Vidnyánszky
In Hungarian. On MITEM with English subtitles
3 hours 10 minutes with 1 breaks.
“The Viceroy Bánk is a work of genius, and of our great classics – Csongor and Tünde and The Tragedy of Man – it is the one best written for the stage. Like Shakespeare, Katona is no mere philosopher. He presents a series of characters who evoke sympathy, identification, love, contempt and hatred in the audience. He builds the dramatic construct out of still valid, gripping, gut-felt and ultimately tense conflicts
The Viceroy Bánk reminds us of a series of ever-topical issues: that we have been stuck between East and West for thousands of years, our sense of being in-between, the recurrence of the same historical conflict patterns, that we are not understood and at odds with the rest of the world. But Katona does not get didactic, instead, he weaves a profoundly touching story of love, loyalty, seduction, betrayal, patriotism, power and politics” – says director Attila Vidnyánszky, who is staging The Viceroy Bánk again at the National Theatre following the 2002 and 2017 versions (and after staging Ferenc Erkel’s famous operaversion many times).
“When I started working on the production in 2002, I had the feeling that the world was changing. And by now, the world has changed – radically and irrevocably, so I decided to create a new performance bringing new ideas, this time with young people. We Hungarians must come once again face-to-face with the issues that have been challenging us for a thousand years: division, discord and hatred, passed down through the generations.”
Sándor Berettyán
Ágnes Barta
Péter Herczegh
László Szabó Sebestyén m.v.
Hanga Martos
Nándor Berettyán
Attila Kristán
Martin Mészáros m.v.
Ödön Rubold
László Tóth
István Madácsi
Roland Bordás
Márk Horváth m.v.
Márk Wettstein e.h.
Mari Nagy
Gábor Vida
Zoltán Gémesi m.v.
Ádám Hajdu m.v.
István Hornyák m.v.
Öcsi Latabár m.v.
Péter Varga m.v.
Attila Palyov m.v.
Csaba Taba m.v.
Noémi Siklósy m.v.
Dorka Imely
Edina Balogh
Izabella Kiss
Mónika Kosina
Donát Dorián Hegedüs
Heléna Bognár
Gergő Kalmár
Boglárka Menyhárt
Csongor Szentkereszty
Krisztina Berzsenyi
Ernő Verebes
Gabi Kónya
Gábor Dobos
András Csasztvan
Rita Herpai
Attila Vidnyánszky
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