Georg Büchner: Leonce and Lena

Hungarian translation: Gábor Thurzó

In the performance, we use quotations from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It and Büchner's Woyczek, as well as poems by William Blake and Heinrich Heine.

Opening March 2002.

Prince Leonce, son of the king of Popo:	Gergely Bánki
Princess Léna, from the empire of Pipi:	Lilla Sárosdi
Valerio:	Roland Rába
Rosetta/Governess:	Borbála Péterfy
Péter, king of the empire of Popo:	Sándor Terhes
Major-domo:	Annamária Láng
President:	Zsolt Nagy
Scenery:	Márton Ágh, Tamás Bányai, Áron Kovács, Róbert Noszlopi

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Properties:	Miklós Mervel
Music:	András Monori
Costumes:	Klára Varga, Julcsi Kiss
Dramaturg:	Péter Kárpáti, Anna Veress
Puppets:	Erik Grosschmid
Mask:	Fruzsina Nagy
Drama-pedagogy consultant:	Erik Szauder
Puppet consultant:	András Lénárt
Assistant:	Balázs Erős
Production manager:	Máté Gáspár
Directed by Árpád Schilling

The comedy of the brilliant German author, who died young in the first half of the 19th century, with its fresh, free, playful tone excelled in the literature of the Romanticism-Biedermeier age and became a piece regularly performed on the world's stages until today. The play deals with the basic problems of individual and social existence in a tale-like, seemingly facile form: who are we, why and how should we live, whether we have to give up our freedom to integrate into society, do we have to give up love for the family life, and the independence of our thinking to become useful members of society?

The piece takes place in the realm between reality and dream, our most inner self-, and the roles we play in the world, fate and free will. It is performed by the company of Krétakör in a space and means reduced to minimum, playing in direct proximity of the audience.

Supporters: National Cultural Basic Program, Ministry of Education, Ministry of National Cultural Heritage

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