21 October | 21:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Pictură Hall
A miraculous concert-performance that scatters the borders between music, theatre and film.
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By: Ivan Vîrîpaev
Translated by: Orsolya Kis
Stage adaptation: Katalin Deák
Cast:
Boy: Bence Kónya-Ütő
Girl: Janka Korodi
Directed by: Tibor Pálffy
Original music and sound design: Bence Kónya-Ütő
Light design: Anrás Rancz
Producer: Tamási Áron Theatre, Sfântu Gheorghe
Duration: 1h 30 min (no intermissions)
Recommended age: 14+
Performance in Hungarian with Romanian and English surtitles
In Pálffy Tibor’s reading, Ivan Vyrypaev’s play is not simply a text for the stage, it rather turns into a dialogue partner, leading a relationship with the characters in the cast. This seemingly paradoxical situation is relevant to the very stakes of the staging at the Támasi Áron theatre, that of retracing Treplev’s metaphor of the search for new forms, appropriate for the present time. The result is a composition of an elaborate quality of sound and image, delightfully fluid in its form, with surprising reliefs, provoking dreamlike pulsations, but also cold, frontal meditations on the real. Atypical, strange and difficult to define, Oxygen could in fact be an echo coming from the future of performance art. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Pálfy Sándor and Barabás Zsolt
