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Eugene Labiche - Mark Michel

Un cappello di paglia di Firenze

National Theatre, Budapest, Hungary

Director: Silviu Purcărete

2 hours, without breaks.

Fadinard, solitary

Péter Herczegh

Nonancourt, nursery owner

Zsolt Trill

Beauperthuis

József Szarvas

Vézinet, deaf

Ádám Schnell

Tardiveau, accountant

József Varga

Bobin, Nonancourt's nephew

Márton Pallag

Émile Tavernier, lieutenant

Attila Kristán

Felix, Fadinard's servant

József Rácz

Achille de Rosalba

Gyula Bodrogi

Zoltán Rátóti

Hélène, daughter of Nonancourt

Anita Polyák e.h.

Anaïs, wife of Beauperthuis

Kinga Katona

Baroness Champigny

Nelli Szűcs

Clara, a fashion saleswoman

Andrea Söptei

Virginie, the Beauperthuis' maid

Ágota Szilágyi

Clotilde, the Baroness's maid

Ilka Sipos e.h.

Clown decorators

Dávid Róbert Krauter e.h.

Tamás Ábel Winkler e.h.

Pianist, conductor

Csilla Bellus

As well as the wedding party:

Bangó Ernest eh., Holló Patrik Albert eh., Steeinhuis Raul eh. – SZFE acting artist class IV. grade. The SZFE dramatist-musician II will also participate in the performance. year students.
Head teachers: Szabolcs Mátyássy and László Méhes

Set and costume designer

Buhagiar Dragoş

Composer

Şirli Vasile

Lyrics

Silviu Purcărete

The translator of the lyrics

Ferenc André

Tutor

Csilla Bellus

dramaturge

Edit Ágota Kulcsár

Tolmács and the director's colleague

Patrícia Horváth

Assistant Director

Ákos Sándor Trimmel

Director

Silviu Purcărete

Main Stage

4 May 2025, 19:00

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Silviu Purcărete

Silviu Purcărete was born in Bucharest, in 1950. He graduated from the Institute of Theatre and Cinematography of Bucharest. He worked at Piatra Neamţ, Constanţa, Bucharest, and since 1988, at the National Theatre of Craiova. In 2007, he directed J.W. Goethe's Faust at the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu, a performance that was remarkably successful at the 2009 edition of the Edinburgh Festival.He has worked in theaters located in England, Austria, France,Norway, Portugal, Hungary, as well as at the Bonn, Cardiff, Vienna,Essen Opera Houses. In 1996, he became the director of the LimogesNational Dramatic Center, where he produced several performancesand where he created a school for young actors. He was named Commander in the Order of the Star of Romania, and was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, in France. He won the Hamada Foundation's Critics' Award and the Award for Artistic Excellence at the Edinburgh International Festival (1991), the Best Foreign Performance Award at the Montreal Festival of the Americas(1993), the Peter Brook Golden Globe Award for Best theatre direction(1995), the Critics' Award at the Dublin Theatre Festival (1996), the Special Prize of the Jury at the International Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk (2006), the UNITER Award for Best Direction (1993 and 2005), and the UNITER Award for Excellence (1997 and 2010 – alongside the team with whom he collaborated for Faust at the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu).

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