Bonfire
Director: Armin Petras
György Dragomán
Bonfire
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