DO YOU KNOW THE MILKY WAY?
Waintingroom Project, Spring 2010
By Karl Wittinger
Directed by Levente Imecs-Magdó and Andrej Visky
Set Designer: Balázs Makkai
Costume Designer: Andrea Kürti
Props: Márta Adorjáni
Video: Sámuel Visky
Technical Assistant: Othniel Visky
Translation: Zsuzsa Pálosy
Featuring
Doctor - Levente Imecs-Magdó
Man - Andrej Visky
Corpse Washer 1 - Zsolt Csepei
Corpse Washer 2 - Nándor Vetési
Breaking News: Helmut Neuross, renowned neurologist and his patient, Johannes Schwarz have committed suicide by jumping out of the widow (of the Neurological Institute)….. snitt. The next scene is set in a morgue where two corpses come to life and realise that they are latched there together and are forced to see and participate in a play that had been inspired by the life of one of them. Lost is space and time they are desperately seeking the answers to the following questions: What happened to them? Why can’t they die?
The stories they see in the play are the only points of reference – they have no choice but to except the roles. The surreal (probably even more cruel than the real) roles of these two dead actors are the following: Johannes Schwarz relives or replays his life and Helmut Neuross is forced to assist. The plot of the play features several settings and stories: the role-play of the dead, the scene that presents the work of the corpse washers as they prepare the bodies and the videos left behind by the two deceased – a frame story: a play within a play. When will the funeral take place?
