Anybody

Forte Company – Szkéné Theatre (Hungary)

To be or not to be? What a question! – Hamlet’ question of existence is echoed in a twisted way by Anybody, one of the characters of Szilárd Borbély’s play. The question is followed by a few scenes in which typical, primarily (sub)urban figures of consumer society appear on the stage of life, and then just as unexpectedly sink into the theatrical sinkhole of oblivion with a mask on their faces. The mask of Anybody. The genre of the play is “amorality”: allegorical figures of medieval morality are transformed into theatrical roles. And as such, they are reduced to a dramaturgical function - as the author defines it: ‘every scene involves three active actors: the Speaker, the Antagonist and the Raisonneur. In each case, they reflect the reduction to function, to consumerism, to consumer beings, of the members of this postmodern society. The stories are linked by the motif of death. Borbély imagines Death ‘embodied’ within the framework of a theatrical performance, i.e. he uses theatre to give Death a body, and to emphasise the gesture of embodiment, he makes its presence on stage permanent.

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Author of the text: Borbély Szilárd

Concept / Directed by / Choreographed by / Created by: Horváth Csaba

Cast: Fehér László, Földeáki Nóra, Horkay Barnabás, Krisztik Csaba, Pallag Márton, Widder Kristóf

Set design by: Kalászi Zoltán, Kiss Benedek

Costume designer: Benedek Mari

Vocal Transcription by: Widder Kristóf

Director of Lighting: Payer Ferenc

Assistant Director: Garádi Gréta

Production Manager: Trifonov Dóra

Vocal transcriptions based on works by John Dowland, Mateo Flecha, Thomas Tomkins and Juan del Encina

Age restrictions: 16+