This great classic of Hungarian literature, written in 1861, turns around Genesis: Adam et Eve are not the beginning of the history of human life, they travel through it guided by Lucifer. One after the other they discover ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, the Roman empire, Constantinople in the time of the knights, Kepler's Prague, Paris in the French Revolution, London at the time of the French Revolution, a socialist work community and the Inuit society where people return to an imitation of animal behaviour. The Mozgó Ház (Mobile Home) company has loosely adapted this work of art that summarises the different lifestyles and modes of thought. For an encyclopaedic book, an encyclopaedic treatment with all the spectacular means of a transcription of history and of live performance: music-hall techniques, live video images, recorded images (news footage, fiction and scientific images), live mix of these images, house-remix music, natural sounds... The show is a product of the demolition of a literary work and of stereotypes from the world of politics and television, it is a production that is both fragmentary and whole. It is an example of new wave theatre from Hungary
Distribution
stage direction László Hudi
written and performed by : Júlia Bársony, Krisztina Birtalan, Adrien Deli, Réka Gévai, András Lang, Isabelle Lé, Zsolt Móninger, Erika Pereszlényi, Elzbieta Sulykó, Iván Tabeira, Balázs Vajna
decor and lighting : György Árvai
costumes : Gabriella Simon
video compilation : Eszter Poroszlai
live video mix : Attila Szirtes
live music mix : Balázs Barna
accessories : Janka Haraszti
Production
coproduction : Compagnie Mozgó Ház, Berliner Festspiele (Allemagne), Festival d'Avignon, TRAFó (Hongrie), Festival d'Automne de Budapest, Sophiensæle (Allemagne), THEOREM
avec l'aide du : ministère hongrois de la Culture, du Fonds national pour la Culture (Hongrie), de la Fondation SOROS (Hongrie), du Conseil de la ville de Budapest
avec le soutien de : l'ONDA pour les surtitres
le programme De la Baltique aux Balkans est réalisé avec l'aide de : THEOREM, du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, de la Mission pour la Célébration de l'An 2000 en France, de l'Association française d'Action artistique-ministère des Affaires Etrangères et de la Commission européenne.