The Season Starts with Radu Afrim’s New Contemporary Play

The first premiere of the season is a play written and directed by Radu Afrim.  The play entitled A Chance-Child is Telling a Story in Front of a Blue Background is a contemporary performance with a fresh perspective, based on the original text of Molnár Ferenc’s The Glass Slipper.

The audience of the Tamási Áron Theatre is introduced for the second time to the director’s bold, magical realist world. In 2013 Afrim directed a present-day tale, Anyone (Everyman), written by one of the most promising Hungarian contemporary writers, Péter Kárpáti.

The term magical realism – familiar from the novels of Márquez – adjusts to Afrim’s daring theatrical world, always leading to a unique, absurd solution on stage, to one in which text, movement and image are combined into a totality and where madness shows its human face.

Afrim used Molnár Ferenc’s modern Cinderella story as a starting point. He kept the relations, fortunes and desires from the original play and adapted them into a fictive reality. The guesthouse of the small town, the brothel and the corny programme of the Saint Feromon Radio might sound familiar, but the director’s provocative and paradoxical associations have an alienating effect. The haunting question remains: What is permanent in this world of twisted possibilities? The answer might be that there are only the lies, the deception and maybe one more thing: the chance child’s continuous search for the father.

Tickets for the performance are available starting from the 3rd of September.