Bonfire

2017. 10. 03.

György Dragomán: Bonfire

Director: Armin Petras

World premiere

Stage adaptation | Armin Petras

Translation | Diána Eszter Mátrai

Performed by | Janka Kopek and Patrícia Puzsa

Scenography | Olaf Altmann

Costume design  | Katja Strohschneider

Music | Jörg Kleemann

Lighting design | Norman Plathe

Dramaturgy | Anne Rietschel, Bernd Isel, Eszter Diána Mátrai

Directed by | Armin Petras

„Only what we remember exists. What we forget is no more, it disappears from the world.”

Bonfire is about the anomalies of life in Romania following the fall of dictator, Nikolai Ceaușescu, as seen through the eyes of a young teen, Emma. The girl lost both her parents and her home and is taken into the care of her magical grandmother. Emma is struggling to liberate her soul from her parents’ and grandparents’ psychological burdens, but in order to succeed first she needs to see her family’s past clearly. How does one deal with one’s past when their country has just been liberated?

This performance of Bonfire has been produced in collaboration with the Staatsschauspiel Theatre, Dresden (DE) and the National Theatre in Sibiu (RO). It is the first time highly acclaimed German theatre maker Armin Petras works in Hungary. Two of Vígszínház’s actresses, Janka Kopek and Patrícia Puzsa play all the roles of the stage adaptation.

premiere | 30th September 2017 | Vígszínház | Studio