Ivan Vyrypaev

Drunks

National Theatre Târgu-Mureş – Tompa Miklós Company

Translator: KOZMA András

Young girls, models, newlyweds, middle-aged spouses, bank managers, festival managers, betrayed husbands and wives, fourteen men and women of different ages and ranks, all talk about the world and our lost values in Drunk.

The author of the play, being the continuator of the New Drama movement in Russia and the initiator of the Oxygen artistic movement, experiments a theatrical language based on a completely new aesthetics: although it speaks of the cruel reality that surrounds us, he reintroduces poetry back into the theatre.

Radu Afrim creates real life situations in which the actors talk about their dilemmas in the strange state of drunkenness: Who is not afraid of death? What do faith in God, human fidelity and love mean today, when the everyday experience is not living transcendence but an aspiration to it? How could one live without lies?

The answer obviously depends on us.

 

CAST:

Martha..……….………………………………… Noémi KÁDÁR

Mark…………………………………………… András KORPOS

Magda……………………………………………Dorottya NAGY

Laurenz……………………………………… Aba SEBESTYÉN

Gustav.……………………………………….. Botond KOVÁCS

Dora…………………………………………. Erzsébet B.FÜLÖP

Karl….………………………………………………. Ernő GALLÓ

Laura…………………………………….Katalin BEREKMÉRI

Max………………………………………………..Csaba LÁSZLÓ

Roza……………………………………..Orsolya MOLDOVÁN

Linda…………………………………………….Ildikó P. BÉRES

Rudolf……………………………………István FERENCZI H.

Mathias…………………………………László Zsolt BARTHA

Bíborka.…………………………………… Viktória RENCZÉS

Gabriel……………………………………………Balázs VARGA

A man…….……………………………………… Szabolcs CSÍKI

 

MUZICIANS:

SZABÓ Fruzsina – vocal, KOSTYÁK Márton – double bass player, BOROS Csaba – pianist

 

Directed by: Radu AFRIM
Set designer: József BARTHA
Costume designer: Orsolya MOLDOVÁN
Composer: Csaba BOROS
Assistant, dramaturg: Réka SZABÓ
Stage manager: Lehel RIGMÁNYI
Prompter: Katalin TÓTH


Duration of performance:
3 hours and 15 minutes
(with 1 interval)