Schedule
The protagonist of the story, the bureaucrat with an unstable sense of reality, who is constantly losing his sense of reality before our eyes, is played by Tamás Keresztes, who is not the first person to play the lead role in a Bodó production, and was also the basis of the famous Ledarálnakeltűntem at the Katona József Theatre, which also presented the forced rampage of a vulnerable little man as an interesting parallel.
The script for the new version of Diary of a Madman is being prepared by comparing several translations with the original Russian copy. Besides Tamás Keresztes, another important "player" in the production will be the set designed by Tamás Keresztes , as well as the loop that will create the atmosphere and will be used to create the live music for the performance. Are we crazy or is the world crazy around us? - This is what Gogol's story, set in 1834, is about, and the question is just as relevant now in 2016.
CAST: Aksy Ivanovich Poprishin: Tamás Keresztes
CREATORS:
Dramaturg: Júlia Róbert
Assistant: Zsuzsi Szakács
Set design: Tamás Keresztes
Graphics by Gergő Nagy
Lighting design: Antal Lohár
Sound engineer: Zoltán Belényesi
Expert: dr. Zsolt Zalka
Producer: Tibor Orlai Tibor
Director: Viktor Bodó
Special thanks to: Nóra Juhász, Árpád Kákonyi, József Szalai, Dávid Szarvas.
The production was created in cooperation between Katona József Theatre, FÜGE, MASZK Association (Szeged) and Orlai Production Office.
PRIZES:
- Thealter Festival 2016: Critics' Prize
- Theatre Critics' Award 2017: best male lead actor
- Mastercard: Theatre Artist of the Year Award
- MOST Festival 2017: Best Monodrama Performance Special Award for Best Performance: Tamás Keresztes for his performance in Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol's monodrama The Diary of a Madman, for his creation of the set and music
Jurányi House
The Jurányi Production Community Incubator House has become a key venue in the capital's cultural life, a vibrant hub of the contemporary art scene.
Our aim in creating the Jurányi was to find a stable, shared home for the independent theatre and creative arts sector, providing the infrastructure necessary for its day-to-day operations. We wanted to create a cultural centre in the Buda area, a "contemporary art house" where theatre-loving young people could spend a few hours over a coffee or even a theatre performance, a creative children's activity or an acrobatic movement class, thus re-filling the abandoned educational institution with an active community life.
Jurányi is more than just a theatre in Buda, it is a creative and creative base where visitors can enjoy a varied artistic, community, and educational program, in addition to a regular repertoire of 300 productions a year. We are proud that the Jurányi House is now a graduation subject in some art schools.
