The mother (HU)

The coproduction of the Tompa Miklós Company of the National Theatre of Târgu Mureș and the Karinthy Theatre in Budapest.

Florian Zeller is deeply fascinated by situations that lead to the deterioration of human relationships within a family, where subjective memories become fragmented, and the balance between perceived and real truth is disrupted. He is also interested in situations where the stubborn attachment to a chain of memories, disrupted by lost time, clashes with the external perspective on reality. At what point does Anne, a mother unable to let go of her growing son and a wife who continues to poison her marriage out of bitterness over losing her husband, lose her mind? We don’t know. As spectators, we only witness the end state, where imagination and reality have already become hopelessly entangled. We see a desperate, yet cynical woman wandering among the ruins of her own life.

The production, a collaboration between the Karinthy Theatre in Budapest and the Tompa Miklós Company of the National Theatre of Târgu Mureș, is considered a Hungarian-language world premiere, directed by the Uzbek-born artist Talgat Batalov. The Hungarian translation for both companies was provided by Olt Tamás, the director of the Karinthy Theatre, and Váradi R. Szabolcs.

Special thanks to Ekaterina Gosteva, Doctor of Linguistics, for her effective assistance and valuable advice regarding the linguistic aspects of the drama in bringing this play to the stage.