Péter Kárpáti and his friends: Scabby dog

Confession is a communal experience. It is not only good for the sinner to ease their conscience, but also to drag their listeners into the mire of sin.

The performance experiments with different spatial experiences and situations in an unconventional way, so after its premiere in the main hall in September, it will migrate to different spaces at Trafó: the Club, the Studio, and then back to the Club in October.

"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 splitting, it hurts in places you didn't even know existed. No, I don't believe it! Your body is breaking, one last great rage, and 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 known stories developed in a different, unknown direction. The world of fairy tales is strangely deep psychological and visionary, and every twist and turn has enormous dramatic weight.

I only kept a couple of sentences 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 definitely 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 he is working with fellow creators Lilla Barna, Tibor Boda, Anna Hámor, Ábel Horváth, Natasa Stork, Gáspár Téri, Brigitta Varga, Veronika Keresztesová, and Ákos Lengyel Papa on the performance based on it.