Dóra Gimesi: THE CAN PRINCE'S NINTH LIFE
ESZME - Manna Production
B32 Galéria és Kultúrtér
The setting is Budapest, where the Cat Prince lives, who roams the rooftops at night in the form of a silver-grey tomcat, peeping in through the girls' windows and purring a soft, fluffy sleep into their hearts. Then one day he meets Alinka, the spring fairy. The Cat Prince falls in love with her and decides to marry her. But the marriage comes with a sacrifice: the Cat Prince must give up his former lifestyle to become Alinka's all the time. Their happiness is untroubled for a while, but as spring approaches, Alinka becomes busier and busier, and Prince Cat is lured by the rooftops he hasn't seen for a long time...The performance is a masque about a magical world invisible to us, about human fallibility and love. Although the title and the animal characters suggest an atypical adult performance, the theme and the performance itself are clearly aimed at an adult audience.
The heart is filled with longing, with fervent desire, but when at last we have gained what we have fought for with a thousand troubles, this desire soon turns into a deadly-cold vulgarity, and we throw away our acquired possessions like a cheap toy. And no sooner have we done this, than we bitterly repent our foolish deed, and struggle again, and thus our lives, between desire and loathing, pass away. The cat is like that... Yes, I repeat, the cat is like that, and nothing else, and the cat's heart is very fickle.
/E.T.A. Hoffmann /
CAT PRINCE - ZSOLT DÉR
ALINKA - FŐGLEIN FRUZSINA
AGONY - PÁJER ALMA
LEOPOLD, THE OLD LILAC, SUITORS - GEORGITA MÁTÉ DEZSŐ
LAMBERG ROZÁLIA, SCHMITT JOLÁNKA - NYAKÓ JULI
DEATH, PRIEST - KOVÁCS DOMOKOS
DESIGNER: MICHAC GÁBOR
STAGE ADAPTATION - DRAMATURG: NAGY ORSOLYA
COMPOSER: BERNADETT TARR
CHOREOGRAPHER: HEGYMEGI MÁTÉ
DIRECTOR: SZENTECZKI ZITA
Photos by Anett Kállay-Tóth