29 October | 17:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Pictură Hall
The performance Young Barbarians explores the friendship between two famous Hungarian composers, Bartók Béla and Kodály Zoltán, at an incredible pace, full of imagination.
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Inspired by the life of Bartók Béla and Kodály Zoltán, based on a text by Miklós Vecsei H. and the improvisation work of the creative team
Cast:
Girl: Zsuzsa Tőtszegi
Barbarian B.: Éva Imre
Barbarian K.: Ervin Szűcs
Voice: Balázs Bodolai
Balázs Béla, Benny Goodman, Ady Endre, Eminem, women and men, bugs, so all others: Lóránd Váta, Csilla Albert, Zsuzsa Tőtszegi, Zsolt Gedő, Loránd Farkas
Young dancers: Katalin-Bíborka András, Ágnes Lakatos, Nimród-Károly Kacsó, Hunor Vincze-Pistuka
And last but not least, Ansamblul Tokos: Csongor Attila Tókos, Albert Vajas, Gyula Bálint Szép, Kristóf Szakács, Zsombor Bálint
Directed by: Attila Vidnyánszky Jr.
Stage design: Csaba Csíki
Costumes: Zsuzsanna Cs. Kiss
Choreography: István Berecz
Original music: Dávid Mester
Assistant director: Emőke Veres
Producer: The Hungarian State Theatre, Cluj
Duration: 3h (with intermission)
General audience
Performance in Hungarian with Romanian and English surtitles
Young Barbarians at the Hungarian State theatre, Cluj, directed by the young Hungarian director Attila Vindyánszky Jr., proposes an intense and sharp response to the ideea of nationalism as a state ideology. The performance is a polemic squabble against the ideologization of the Hungarian culture in authoritarian regimes. The fragmentary biography of the friendship between Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály during their musical folklore gathering campaigns dismantles the concept of national cultural identity. The iconoclastic character of Béla Bartók, a mixture of physical debility and self-sacrificing effervescence, reveals the gap between the nationalist confiscation of music/culture and its vital purity. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: István Biró
