Transitions Central Europe: Our Secrets
Béla Pintér
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Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Small groups (5-9 people): 9 €
Large groups (10+ people): 8 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities: 4 €
Companions, Reduced: 5 €
Language
With English subtitles
Introduction
Secrets and lies of Hungary in the 1980s: In this critically acclaimed comic tragedy of dark times in the Eastern Bloc, an opponent of the regime and a secret-police informer find themselves together in a ball room in communist Hungary.
HUNGARY
Hungary, 1980: Brought together in a ballroom, a group of people see their lives crushed amidst folk songs, blow jobs, alcohol and endless debates over the Iron Curtain...
Featuring songs, this award-winning play by the internationally acclaimed dramaturg, director and actor Béla Pintér (b.1970) is suitable only for adults. Its protagonist, István, is a paedophile. Attempting to avoid arrest, he gives in to blackmail by the Hungarian secret police and becomes an informer. Morbid fiction or a real incident?
Against the backdrop of an enormous tape recorder, Béla Pintér (who also plays Imre, a dancer and a regime opponent), mixes folklore and modernity, sexual perversion and unbearable humanity in this hardcore contemporary drama.
Pintér’s work is not nostalgic for the communist 80s. With raw realism, sarcastic humor, and an underground lyricism, he exposes the collective neuroses and pathologies of Hungary’s recent past: the recruitment of informers by the notorious AVH (the Hungarian Stasi), the functioning of an entire nation according to the logic of secret reports, and the protection of former agents and their identities to this day, to name a few...
Photo: Zsolt Puskel
Saturday 14 November
After performance talk with Béla Pintér (Language: Hungarian, with simultaneous translation)
Moderated by Katia Arfara, Artistic Director of the Theater and Dance Department at the Onassis Stegi.
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