TicketsHommage à Beckett
Adaptation after Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound by Ágnes Kali and Gábor Tompa
A co-production of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, the SNT Drama Ljubljana and the Constanța State Theatre (Romania−Slovenia)
Production premiered as part of the European Theatre Union’s (UTE) Catastrophe project.
Olympos Stage
Protagonist: Igor Samobor
Zeus, the director: Gábor Viola
Hera, the director’s assistant: Cătălina Mihai
Luke, the lighting technician: Áron Dimény
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus: Igor Samobor
Kratos: Tamás Kiss / Florin Aioane / Domen Novak
Bia: Anikó Pethő
Hephaestus: Áron Dimény
Io: Ecaterina Lupu / Eva Jesenovec / Eszter Román
Hermes: Mirela Pană
Oceanus: Zsolt Bogdán
Chorus
Chief correspondent: Dana Dumitrescu
Influencer: Andrea Vindis
Radio reporter: Ecaterina Lupu / Eva Jesenovec / Eszter Román
Camera operator: Domen Novak / Florin Aioane / Tamás Kiss
Expert: Florin Aioane / Domen Novak / Tamás Kiss
Journalist: Melinda Kántor
Directed by Gábor Tompa
Assistant director: Erwin Șimșensohn
Set elements and costumes: Carmencita Brojboiu
Original music: Vasile Șirli
Dramaturgy: Ágnes Kali
Choreography: Ferenc Sinkó
Video: Radu Daniel
Set and costume assistant: Gyopár Bocskai
Stage manager: Réka Zongor
Prometheus'22 wants to be a meditation of the condition of the intellectual in the 21st century. In the digitalized and powerfully manipulated news network and social media truth became over-relativized and even fact-checks can end up being considered as fake news. In an extremely ideologized and divided world, where dialogue became almost impossible and debates are reduced to extreme reactions, hate speech became a daily routine, often fueled by governments which support extreme political ideas. In these conditions the role of the intellectuals – scientists, doctors, artists – becomes more difficult but also more responsible, that of observing the world with an objective eye and share their knowledge to the people even with the risk of being persecuted in the same way as Prometheus has been in the mythological time.
The performance tries to approach to the myth of Prometheus from a more ironic perspective exploring its significance in the context of our contemporary world.
Gábor Tompa
