Parallax

Text by Kata Wéber
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó/Proton Theatre
As part of the 2024 Autumn Festival
in Hungarian, surtitled in French

Length: 1hrs.50 min

10 – 18 October

Berthier 17^e

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By and with Soma Boronkay, Emőke Kiss-Végh, Erik Major, Csaba Molnár, Lili Monori, Roland Rába and Sándor Zsótér

Internationally recognised theatre director and filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó founded his independent company Proton Theatre in Hungry, through which he presents powerful sometimes upsetting creations that he develops on stage in collaboration with the writer Kate Wéber. Three characters are at the centre of Parallax: in Budapest, an elderly Jewish woman, who refuses to receive a concentration camp survivor medal from the current Hungarian government; in Berlin, her daughter who needs to prove her Jewish identity to receive the benefits granted to it in Germany and enrol her son in a good school; and her son who is only interested in his identity as a homosexual. Parallax (a term that refers to the change in the point of view placed on an object) delves into this paradox: how can an identity be both a burden and a privilege?

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Length: 1hrs.50 min

Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm,
Sunday at 3pm no performances on Monday

in Hungarian, surtitled in French and with English surtitles on Fridays 11 and 18 October

Ages 16 and up. This show contains scenes of a sexual nature that may offend audiences.

Happy Thursday on Thursday 17 October

dramaturgy Soma Boronkay, Stefanie Carp
set design Monika Pormale
costumes Melinda Domán
lighting András Éltető
music Asher Goldschmidt
choreography Csaba Molnár
artistic collaboration Dóra Büki
assistant director Soma Boronkay

production Proton Theatre – Budapest
coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Wiener Festwochen – Freie Republik Vienne, Comédie de Genève, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa (Milan), HAU Hebbel am Ufer – Berlin, Festival d’Athènes-Épidaure, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg / scène européenne, International Summer Festival Kampnagel – Hambourg, Centre dramatique national d’Orléans – Centre-Val de Loire, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève

with the support of Számlázz.hu, Minorities Talents&Casting, Danubius Hotels
with the support of Cercle Giorgio Strehler

in co-production with Festival d’Automne

creation in May 2024

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Kornél Mundruczó graduated from the Budapest School of Dramatic Art and Cinematography in 2004, and quickly gained international recognition as a director. Pleasant Days (2002) won the Silver Leopard at Locarno; Delta (2008), Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010), La Lune de Jupiter (2017) and Évolution (2021) were shown at the Cannes Film Festival; White God (2014) won a prize in the ‘Un certain regard’ section.

Since 2003, he has also been working in theatre and opera, notably with Proton Theatre, which he founded in 2009 with Dóra Büki to preserve maximum artistic freedom and produce independent shows, often on an international scale. In France, he presented Hard to be a god at the Novart Festival in Bordeaux in 2010 and at the Filature in Mulhouse in 2011, Disgrâce by J. M. Coetzee at the Avignon Festival in 2012, and Imitation of Life, by Kata Wéber, at the MC93 in 2018. He has also directed productions in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Belgium.

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