BÁNK BAN? PRESENT!
WaitingRoom Project, Spring 2012
By József Katona
Directed by Andrej Visky
Dramaturg: Johanna Bertóti
Costume Designer: Andrea Kürti
Costume Designer Assistant: Anita Kürti
Featuring
Endre II, Petur ban - Nándor Vetési
Gertrudis - Maya Sebők
Bánk ban - Zsolt Csepei
Melinda - Emese Simó
Ottó - Levente Imecs-Magdó
Biberach - Bence Molnár
Bánk Ban? Present! is a play that addresses high school students. This rather untraditional performance reshapes a compulsory reading of the high-school curriculum: Katona József’s Bánk Bán. This school-room performance is not meant to invite the students to our own show rooms but to watch the play in their own learning environment, i.e. to be invited to their own classroom.
What are the aspects of texts, our national tragedy that could be transferred to a present day interpretation? What do we still have in common with it other than the fact that it is a compulsory part of the Hungarian literature curriculum? How can we approach a text written in the 19th century that recounts a story from the 13th century? These were the issues we focused on when deciding to elaborate and reshape this tragedy.
