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Csokonai Fórum will present a play by Szilárd Borbély, one of Debrecen’s greatest writers and poets, with English subtitles on the 25th of March.
In 2023, Szilárd Borbély would have turned 60. But 2024 is not the year of his birth, but of his death ten years ago. To commemorate this double anniversary, Bálint Botos will produce a stage adaptation of the author’s first and only novel, “Dispossessed”.
In keeping with the atmosphere of the novel, Bálint Botos’s production is primarily about the lack of freedom and the desperate search for it. In a village that fears but also gives security, that remembers but easily forgets. At once realistic and fairy-tale-like, hopeless and hopeful, cruel and sensitive.
Szilárd Borbély wrote about the very down-to-earth reality of a small village in the lowlands through the story of a family in difficulty, revealing also a complex, multilayered world: the mysterious rivers that flow beneath the village and perhaps the forgotten, destitute, struggling poor of all Eastern Europe. Borbély combines the unusual and the utterly familiar, a world at once banal and extraordinary. He creates a home. A familiar, difficult home; and it echoes from the stage.
Director: Bálint Botos
Duration:1 hour 40 minutes with one intermission
Tickets can be purchased via this link.
Date: 25 March, 7.00 p.m.
Location: Csokonai Fórum, Kóti Árpád stage
Source:csokonaiszinhaz.hu/en/
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