The world premiere of The Well-Tempered Clavichord, a piece directed by the Berlin-based Hungarian Dávid Márton that is inspired by the music of Bach and the novel The Resistance of Melancholy by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, will take place on Friday. A further seven performances of the piece will take place in the framework of the festival which runs from January 27 until February 13.
The Acts of the Pit Bull, a joint production by the Trafó, the Füge and the Titkos Társulat, is showing at the MC 93 Bobigny on February 9-12.
Dávid Márton has become one of the most sought after directors in Europe in just a few years time. The pieces he brings to the stage are an unconventional mix of music and acting. He calls them ?projects? - theatrical adaptations of literary or musical works, but not in the sense that the one compliments the other; they are rather an artistic alternative showing the influence of his German peers Frank Castorf and Christoph Marthaler.
Bobigny director Patrick Sommier saw The Acts of the Pit Bull in the Tündergyár, a courtyard pub next to Budapest?s Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, on a recent trip to Budapest. The director had worked for years with the capital?s legendary Krétakör theatre company and was curious to see what former member Zsolt Nagy was up to since the troupe disbanded.
The script was written by Péter Kárpáti, but the performance was jointly directed by the author, the actors and the dramaturge Bori Sebők.
The piece is about the arrival of a prophet in the Hungarian capital, Füge says on its website.
?The furious prophet of the ancient legends, after thousands of years of roaming, has arrived in Budapest this morning. He got off the international train , came out of the Keleti and threw himself into the city, like a pit bull into the playground, and tonight we are going to see him?? Füge says.
The Bobigny MC93 has organised Le Standard Idéal, an international theatre festival, since the 1990s. The Krétakör has been a guest several times. This year, troupes from Berlin, Lisbon, Prague and Barcelona are on the programme.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
