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This absurd, real-life incident served as the inspiration for this spoken opera by Anna Eszter Szilágyi, in which a family birthday party being celebrated at a petrol station and the pulsating Icelandic landscape seep into the Babel-like chorus of the tour bus passengers. A waterfall, a rock slide and a volcano serve as a backdrop to the ever-growing “international tsunami of hatred” that takes over the group during the unfortunate episode. Just as the agitated passengers are about to “disconnect from the empathy chain,” the gods Odin and Frigg ask for their help: the only way for their son Baldur to return to life is for everyone to mourn him together.
Örkény István Theatre
The Örkény István Theatre is an independent repertory theatre and one of the most important theatres in the country. Örkény is primarily a prose drama theatre, but our theatre is open to a wide variety of genres. Our repertoire has included more than a hundred works, from antiquity to contemporary works. Regardless of genre, we see the meaning of our work in our choice of high literature, in our careful rehearsals, in our openness to public issues, in our love of humour, grotesque and the many shades of irony. Our ten-year-old theatre education programme was one of the first in Hungary to open up a new channel for active, community-building engagement with audiences.
