Guest Performances

Photo: Ákos-Stiller

IMITATION OF LIFE
Kornél Mundruczó / Proton Theatre / Hungary

  • Fri 09/02 : 9 PM

    Sat 09/03 : 7 PM

  • 1Großes Haus
  • ca. 90 min
  • Hungarian with German and English surtitles
  • 25 € / 15 € / 8 € / red. 8 €

A Roma boy doesn’t look like the rest of his family: pale skin, not like a Roma. He renounces his origins and begins a new life. Filled with hope. But his attempt fails. Rejected by everyone, he lets his frustration take over and commits murder. — Kornél Mundruczó, internationally celebrated for his prize-winning films in Cannes and Locarno, developed Imitation of Life based on a true story. In the spring of 2005 in Hungary, a young Roma man was killed by another man of the same age with a sword. In the heated mood of the time, people quickly assumed the crime had a racist motive, yet the murderer himself was Roma. — Mundruczós’ works are sweeping narratives that draw the audience in cinematically: uncomfortable, political and radical in a way that pushes the audience beyond their comfort zone. They daringly take an unflinching look at Hungary’s new reality and at the same
time represent the powerful resistance of an artist who refuses to accept it.

  • Director Kornél Mundruczó
  • Stage Designer Márton Ágh
  • Costume Designer Márton Ágh, Melinda Domán
  • Text Kata Wéber & Team
  • Dramaturgy Soma Boronkay
  • Music Asher Goldschmidt
  • Artistic Adviser Stefanie Carp
  • With Lili Monori, Roland Rába, Annamária Láng, Zsombor Jéger, Dáriusz Kozma, Ruben Gerendás

A production of Proton Theatre Budapest in coproduction with Wiener Festwochen, Theatre Oberhausen, La Rose des Vents;Maiillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg / Scene européenne, House of Contemporary Arts; HAU Hebbel am Ufer, HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts and Wiesbaden Biennale.