Kárpáti Péter és barátai: Rühes kutya

The performance experiments with different spatial experiences and situations in an unconventional way. After its September premiere in the main hall as part of "The End of Violence," it migrated to different spaces in Trafó: the Club, the Studio, and then back to the main hall in January.

"A friend of mine said I had a choice: either go crazy or start running. You have to do something to love yourself again. You run in the rain, the mud splashes, your body aches, a bunch of blisters burst, your nose runs, branches slap your face, you finally feel alive, your back hurts, your knees sting, it's cruel! Your glutes are on fire, it hurts in places you didn't even know existed. No, I don't believe it! Your body is breaking, one last great fit of rage, and then purification. There is no forgiveness in life, but here, here it is!" (Rühes kutya, excerpt)

"Our starting point is the marshland world of the Karcsa folk tales (collected by Géza Nagy). An ethnographic Galapagos: in this isolated area of Bodrogköz, over the centuries, the familiar stories have developed in a different, unknown direction. The world of the tales is strangely deep psychological and visionary, and every twist and turn has enormous dramatic weight.

I have retained only a sentence or two from the original. Our space-time is today's worn-out, rural Hungary. We make fragmented, contradictory confessions, terrible stories that, as they are told here, could not have happened, but something certainly did happen. Perhaps something much more terrible and mundane. (Péter Kárpáti)

Péter Kárpáti is a playwright, director, teacher, and true theater maker. His latest performance, a dramatic excerpt from his collected works entitled Map of the Afterlife, was also created at Trafó.

Rühes kutya (The Mangy Dog) is his latest drama, and the performance based on it features Lilla Barna, Tibor Boda, Anna Hámor, Ábel Horváth, Natasa Stork, Gáspár Téri, Brigitta Varga, Veronika Keresztesová, and Ákos Papa.

Performers: Natasa Stork, Gáspár Téri, Lilla Barna, Tibor Boda, Anna Hámor, Ábel Horváth

Music: Ábel Horváth

Dramaturg: Anna Hámor

Costumes: Veronika Keresztesová

Sound, lighting: Ákos Papa Lengyel

Production manager: Brigitta Varga (Magnum)

Writer, director: Péter Kárpáti

Thanks to Réka Somorjai, Júlia Annamária Simon, Rebeka Módosi and Sándor Zsótér!

Co-production: Trafó House of Contemporary Arts

Supporters: STAGES (Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift), with the support of the European Union - Creative Europe program, Pro Cultura Urbis

Our performances were made possible with the financial support of the Pro Cultura Urbis Public Foundation and the Independent Performing Arts Fund.