Invitation: 'Summer Dialogues...', Thalia Theatre Budapest, 3 - 4 May
- 3 May 2013 9:03 AM
Inspired by a true story, “The play, Dickensian in an Eastern European way, with a fierce, lean poetry, is a vivid portrait...” writes The Chicago Sun Times. After its UK premier, a play by one of Europe’s most exciting playwrights, Andras Visky, will comes to Budapest, staged by a collective of London-based Eastern European artists. Pre-show backstage tour in English at the Mikroszinpad on Saturday 4 May as part of the Theatre Night.
Showing at Thália Theatre on 3, 4 May 2013, 7:30 pm
In 1989, the outside world first saw images of thousands of abandoned children living in filthy, cramped orphanages in Romania. The catastrophic anti-contraception policies of the country’s long-time communist dictator, Ceausescu, had created a generation of children cared for by the state.
I Killed My Mother is the story of Bernadett, a modern day Jane Eyre of Ceausescu’s Romania, an orphan, exposed to cruelty and neglect, yet possessing a strong sense of self-respect and the capacity to love and to forgive.
Together with her first love, Clip, they survive abandonment and institutionalisation by conjuring a spiritual landscape of hope and order. Her empowering coming of age story is a quiet yet captivating theatrical reportage to the shocking tabloid images that made the headlines 20 years ago.
Written by Andras Visky
Directed by Natalia Gleason
For further information go to www.summerdialoguesproductions.co.uk
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Tel.: (+361) 302-3842, (+361) 311-0635
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