Director Olivier Py, who has been in charge of Odéon Theatre for three years, organises theatre seasons around selected contemporary European playwrights. The 2010/2011 season spotlights the Swiss-French dramatist Valere Novarina, regarded as one of the most prominent authors and directors in today's French-language theatre.
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Imaginary Operetta |
The Csokonai Theatre's production of Imaginary Operetta, directed by the author, will launch the Novarina season at the Odéon main theatre hall in November.
Odéon Theatre programme director Agnes Troly said that she very much liked the idea of presenting a well-known French author's piece in Hungarian with French supertitles.
Imaginary Operetta had its world premiere in Rennes, France, in 1998.
Valere Novarina (63) is known not only as a dramatist, essayist and theatre director, but also as a visual artist. Imaginary Operetta is the play that has made him truly popular with theatregoers after earning critical acclaim for his earlier shows. He is one of the very few dramatists whose work has been included in the Comédie Française repertory in his lifetime. He is also a return guest at the Avignon Festival.
His work with the Csokonai troupe is the first time that Novarina - who only directs his own pieces - has cooperated with a foreign theatre company.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
Photo: Csokonai Theatre / András Máthé
