KoMa Company, ALKA.T and Orlai Productions:
Phaidra Fitness
Arnold Gym, 28th november 9.00 PM
(1037, Budapest, Szépvölgyi st. 15., II. floor)
110 minutes without intermission, in Hungarian with English subtitles
Tickets available at +36 1 786 2933 and jegy@dramafestival.hu
with
Csákányi Eszter, Jaskó Bálint, Scherer Péter, Olt Tamás, Katona László, Bánki Gergely, Jelinek Erzsébet, Lass Bea
Set design, costume: Vereczkei Rita
Music: Szemenyei János
Dramaturg: Veress Anna
Production leader: Gyulay Eszter
Written and directed by Tasnádi István
ALKA.T was founded in 2009, led by István Tasnádi, as a successor of Krétakör Theatre's former actors and creative associates. It is a casual company of creative people who worked together on numerous productions and felt that the common passion and similar artistic taste destines them to stay together Phaidra Fitness is a collaborational performance with Company KoMa, an independent company specialized in staging contemporary Hungarian plays.
Phaidra Fitness is definitely a contemporary play. Tasnádi presents the ancient legend as a contemporary biography, emphasizing the mythical roots of the story. Classical forms and today's urban language, archetypical relationships of the characters and modern urban stereotypes surface. And as he applies the antique forms of theatre and the postmodern tools at the same time, the constant collisions and interactions of the dynamic text represent the myth and our attitudes toward it.
It takes place in a gym, drawing on the Phaedra-myth, that has kept Tasnádi occupied for almost a decade: he's been constantly rewriting the plot since 2001, allowing past interpretations' experiences to get included in the current version. The actors of the Berliner Schaubühne and Krétakör worked on the first version with Árpád Schilling's direction. The result was titled Menopausa and was shown at F.I.N.D Festival, Berlin. Another version directed by Schilling premiered at the Salzburg Festival. The bilingual performance was invited to Zürich, Wroclaw, Stuttgart and Berlin.
| István Tasnádi was born in Budapest in 1970. He has been publishing his works, poems, critcism since 1992 regularly. His anthology Taigetos Nursery including the plays written with Árpád Schilling was published in 2004. He is a founding member and dramaturg (1996-2001) of Bárka Theatre, 2001-2007 resident playwright at Krétakör Theatre. Most of his plays were staged by |
| Krétakör and Katona József Theatre, touring all over Europe. Fatherland, My All (Hazámhazám) premiered in Paris, 2002, Phaidra was introduced at the Salzburg Festival in 2005. His plays Public Enemy and Phaidra were published in French, German and Italian. |
