The mother

THE MOTHER
black comedy

 

Florian Zeller is extremely interested about situations that lead to the degradation of family ties, subjective memories fracture, the balance between imaginary-, and actual reality shatters; situations in which, due to stubbornly clinging to the chain of memories created by time lost clashes with the way one’s environment perceives reality. When is the moment when Anne (the mother unable to let her son grow up, and the wife who, in her bitterness over losing her husband, poisons her marriage even more) slips into insanity? We don’t know. As viewers, we only tune into the final stage, when imagination, and reality are hopelessly entangled. We are watching a woman in despair, yet cynical, wandering among the ruins of her own life.

The Karinthy Theatre (Budapest), and the Tompa Miklós Company’s (Tg.-Mures) co-production counts as a Hungarian speaking world premier, directed by director Talgat Batalov, of Uzbek origins. Translation: Tamás Olt – the Karinthy Theatre’s manager, and Szabolcs R. Váradi.

 

Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes no intermission, age rating: 14+

 

Cast:

 

Mother, Anne – P. Béres Ildikó          

Father, Pierre – Bokor Barna

Son, Nicolas – Rózsa László

Girl, Élodie – Renczés Viktória

 

Set Designer: Natalia Chernova

Costume Designer: Andrada Chiriac

Light designer: Samu Trucza, Narek Tumanian

Video design: Dmitry Sobolev

Composer: Pavel Polyakov

Assistant Director: Krisztián Kiliti

The performance is in hungarian language, with romanian subtitles.