The piece was adapted especially for the venue: a cargo container converted into a bistro operated by a couple of Hungarian immigrants in a public park.
The piece, by Kornél Mundruczó and Yvette Bíró, begins with a casting call for a film. The director, Viktor Frank, played by Roland Rába, drew the audience into the scene along with the actors and won over the hundred or so people in the cool evening with a bit of humour: explaining the simultaneous interpretation headphones distributed to the audience, he said "The first channel is French and the second is...that other language."
Rudolf Frecska
Mundruczó and Bíró made a big effort to please the local audience, even including a Flemish actor among those selected in the casting, but the Hungarians in the audience wondered exactly at what level the Belgians understood the depth of the play.
"How Hungarian is the monster in the story?" asked a Belgian journalist in an interview with The Frankenstein Plan's director printed in the programme for the performance. "It's typically Hungarian. I believe that the piece can be better understood against an Eastern European backdrop, on the other hand, it is a universal story," Mundruczó answered.
Lili Monor & Roland Rába
"The theatergoer is confused when he enters the venue: what is genuine and what is fake, where does he see fiction and where reality," the Belgian daily Le Soir said of the piece.
The Bárka Theatre performed The Frankenstein Plan once a day every day between April 30 and May 6 within the framework of the festival. The play was one of 35 staged performances and films shown.
