24 November | 18:00 – www.fnt.ro
The show has been available for online viewing from Tuesday 24 November 18:00 till Thursday 26 November 18:00.
Classes or masses, our lives are ruled by conventions. We all proceed based on fixed schemes, be it about clothes, food, ordinary conversation. Boys don’t wear skirts, it’s not nice to put our hands in the soup bowl and we’re supposed to answer when someone asks us something.
Translated by: Pályi András
Cast:
Ivonne: Kicsid Gizella
King Ignace: Nemes Levente
Queen Margreth: Gajzágó Zsuzsa
Prince Philip: Mátray László
Chamberlain: Pálffy Tibor
Iza: Pál Ferenczi Gyöngyi
Cyryl: Váta Loránd
Cyprian: Kolcsár József
Aunt 1: Molnár Gizella
Aunt 2: Krizsovánszky Szidónia
Innocente: Erdei Gábor
Valentin: Botka László
Chancelor: Kőműves Mihály
Marshall: Veress László
Magistrate: László Károly
First Lady: Fekete Mária
Second Lady: Tulit (Ruszuly) Éva
Third Lady: P. Magyarosi Imola
Fourth Lady: Fatma Mohamed
Beggar: Darvas László
Adapted / Dramatised by: Czegő Csongor
Directed by: Bocsárdi László
Set Design: József Bartha
Costumes: Judit Dobre-Kóthay
Choreography: Fatma Mohamed
Original music by: Könczei Árpád
Light design: Horváth Csaba, Vargha Zsolt, Varga Béla
Sound design: Fejér Ferenc
Duration: 2h
Producer: „Tamási Áron” Theatre Sfântu Gheorghe, 2008
Recorded for TVR, 2009
In Hungarian with Romanian subtitles
So what’s happening when someone doesn’t answer the question he or she is being asked? As does Yvonne, Gombrowicz’s heroine. Is she stubbornely refusing to answer? Who could know? Is she doing it because she disrespects the person asking? She does not answer. Has she got something against? Against the world? Silence. Might the question be a bad one? Or maybe the questioner doesn’t deserve an answer. There is no answer. Not even to this question. Yvonne’s silence stirs up King Igancio’s fairy tale like court. In this world that has adapted to fit the royal court etiquette, one person’s silence brings thousands of sins to the surface, thousands of dishonest wishes, thousands of hidden passions.
Because of her silence, Yvonne becomes a terrible creature, frightening to the point of turning attractive. All courtiers fear her, but none of them, not even the king, can get rid of her silence, of her unanswered questions. There is no such thing as refuge, one can’t get rid of him- or herself. But staying, trying to survive the density of unanswerable questions will mean an unbearable torture.
Photo credit: Barabás Zsolt
