NONA CIOBANU: Who Shuts the Night

December 04 21:00 - Studio - Tickets

December 04 17:00 - Studio - Tickets

Hanna: ENIKŐ GYÖRGYJAKAB

ZSOLT BOGDAN, ERVIN SZUCS, LORAND VATA, CSABA MAROSAN, ATTILA ORBAN, BALAZS BODOLAI, ZSOLT GYÖRFFY

Directed by NONA CIOBANU

Set design: NONA CIOBANU, PETER KOŠIR

Costumes, music, light design: NONA CIOBANU

Photo, video for the projections: MATJAŽ WENZEL

Videoprojection: PETER KOŠIR

Set designer`s assistant: TIBOR TENKEI

Stage manager: GYÖRFFY ZSOLT

A former Nazi officer and a woman who was imprisoned in a concentration camp meet again, by accident, in Vienna, 13 years after the war. Their relationship began in the camp with a rape.

Max and Hanna, the two protagonists of the play, are the prisoners of their dark past and of history. They cannot make, or maybe they don't want to make a single step behind the walls of this prison. They need to revive the past again and again, in order to purify, to understand and to punish the other one - and themselves, too. While they accept to see the world with the eyes of the other, a dynamic relationship appears between them: both of them are playing, tirelessly, interchangeable roles all the time, whether it is the part of the victim or that of the oppressor.

I think that the question of the relationship between oppressor and victim is particularly topical: it can develop also in the family, or in society in a larger sense. We are just as responsible today for how we perceive these abuses, and for contributing to their support.

Nona Ciobanu