Dievoushka in Miercurea Ciuc
The Tamási Áron Theatre of Sfântu Gheorghe will perform Dievoushka in Miercurea Ciuc. The musical play by Béla Pintér and Benedek Darvas, set in the Second World War, was staged by Máté Hegymegi last February, and it will be performed on 30th, 31th May and 2nd June, at 7 pm. on the main stage of the Municipal Culture House.
In Dievoushka, Béla Pintér revisits one of the most dramatic events in our history with his usual humour and irony. National guardsmen of the Eighth Kinizsi Pál bicycle infantry are watching the sunrise. A new day is beginning. April 20, 1942, Érsekújvár, flag raising. According to the order of war, it is the next day that the regiment moves into Galanta, from where it begins its journey to Russia, to the Don River bend. Captain Halász, Lieutenant Kovács, Private Mikó and Private Nyíri spend the last evening with their loved ones. However, to everyone’s surprise, the colonel’s wife is giving a farewell ball, at which appearance is mandatory by choice. Ármin Heinz, a Jewish worker serves the champagne, the artist gives an outstanding show, and the wives are waiting for their last night together. The champagne is running out, the patriots are dancing, the women are impatient, then an index card appears, later a syringe that will change some peoples’ lives forever. General von Ziege orders combat readiness, the eighth Kinizsi Pál bicycle infantry goes to the front to fight the Red Demon.
Béla Pintér Jászai Mari Award winning actor, musician, writer and director is one of the main figures of the Hungarian alternative theatre life. He is a truly unique theatre personality who since establishing his own theatre, writes his own plays, directs them and takes part in them. Success after success, the theatre has become one of Hungary’s most important and most inventive workshops. Dramatic and entertaining plays built on the classical drama tradition, but born out of the critical-ironic observations of Hungary’s present society, which make the performances relevant and original.
“Dievoushka is one of the most exciting pieces of musical theatre that I have come across so far. The musical quotations and operetta excerpts fit well with the motifs of Puccini or Wagner operas and the Hungarian military marches and revisionist songs, while the content is the center, the music is subordinated to the text. And its content is as unique and original as its form. It takes place in the early 1940s, some of the annexed territories have been returned to Hungary, which can be felt in a kind of intoxication, but at the same time, the development of the war and the fear of going into the unknown have a depressing effect. In addition, the personal destinies and relationships are extremely exciting, the story is full of humorous contradictions, so this masterpiece of Béla Pintér is very dense, complex, layered, sometimes almost surreal,” said director Máté Hegymegi about the performance.
