Duration: 3h
In Hungarian with Romanian and English subtitles.
Available: 24 hours
Age recommendation: 12+
Hungarian translation: Annamária Radnai
Kostoloff: András Hatházi
Vassilisa: Imola Kézdi
Natasha: Éva Imre
Vaska Pepel: Gábor Viola
Kleeshtsh: Loránd Farkas
Anna: Júlia Laczó
Nastya: Anikó Pethő
Boobnoff: Sándor Keresztes
The Baron: Ervin Szűcs
Satine: Miklós Bács
The Actor: Áron Dimény
Luka: Zsolt Bogdán
The Tartar: Péter Árus
Directed by YURI KORDONSKY
Set and costume design: Dragoș Buhagiar
Dramaturg: András Visky
Director's and dramaturg's assistant: Noémi Vajna
Designer's assistant: Ioana Popescu
Correpetition: Zoltán Horváth
Stage manager: Réka Zongor
"In Gorky's playwriting canon The Lower Depths is the most inspired, contradictory, beautiful and relevant play. The play echoes the world we live in today, on social, political and cultural levels. Loneliness of the individual, loneliness of a social group, loneliness of a nation, a country, and the constant battle about what it means to be individual and what it means to be part of a society - are all present in it.
The Lower Depths paints the world at the limit of disappearance, at the limit of collapse. The characters are people who have no home, no families, no money, no means for existence, no jobs, no hope for the future, they are at the very end of the limit. They live in a world where God almost doesn't exist. So we ask ourselves, how far can humanity go before it ceases to exist?"
Yuri Kordonsky
Yuri Kordonsky studied at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts as a student of Lev Dodin, earning master's degrees (MFA) in both acting and directing. He has been teaching, acting and directing abroad since 1989. From 1989 to 2001, he was an actor and the director of the famous Maly Theatre (Theatre of Europe) in St. Petersburg.
The performances he staged include: Disappearance (his own play); García Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba (Maly Theatre, St. Petersburg); Chekhov: Uncle Vanya, Gogol: Marriage, Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, Pavel Sanayev: Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (Bulandra Theatre, Bucharest); Gorky: The Lower Depths (Théâtre d'Esch, Luxembourg); The Encounter (UNESCO ITI Congress, Manila, Philippines); Chekhov: Platonov (Örkény Theatre, Budapest); Tadeusz Konwicki: The Last Day of Youth (Radu Stanca National Theatre, Sibiu); Chekhov: The Seagull (German National Theatre, Timişoara); Ibsen: Peer Gynt, Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Ionesco: The Bald Soprano (Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA); Gogol: Diary of a Madman (West End Theatre, Gloucester, USA), Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Riverside Theater, New York).
Kordonsky's performances have won numerous international awards, including the Golden Light, the Governor's Award and the Bravo Award for Best Performance (Russia), UTE Award for Best Performance (Italy), UNITER Award for Best Performance and Best Direction (Romania), Special Prize of the Romanian Ministry of Culture.
During his acting and directing careers, he has worked in more than twenty countries, teaching theatre and directing in Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania. He moved to the United States with his family in 2001 and has since taught at the Department of Theatre Arts at Wesleyan University, and at Columbia University, UC San Diego, George Washington University, and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. He is currently a lecturer in directing at the Yale School of Drama.
Tours:
National Theatre Festival (FNT), Bucharest (2017)
National Theatre Festival from Pécs, Hungary (2017)
International Theatre Festival from Sibiu (2017)
Awards:
UNITER award for the Best Director for Yuri Kordonsky (2016).
Best light design - Yuri Kordonsky and Dragoș Buhagiar, National Theatre Festival, Pécs, Hungary, 2017.
