Ugrás a fő tartalomra
  • Directed by Gábor Máté
  • Written by Line Knutzon
  • Premiere 4 October, 2021
  • Duration 2 hours 20 minutes, with one interval

Translated by Andrea Iván

 

As we all know, renovating a home is a nightmare. It's a nerve-wracking series of unexpected complications, never-ending hassles and often nothing turns out the way you hope. Renovating a house always involves sacrifices - even when it seems that the work will be done in a matter of days and the middle-aged couple can finally live happily in their dream home. But mysterious things start to happen: building materials, walls and stairs disappear, and that's just the beginning...
This play by the popular Scandinavian playwright and Danish author Line Knutzon, at once endlessly entertaining and full of horrific situations, is one of the most exciting contemporary comedies of recent years.


The production is produced with the permission of Nordiska ApS, Copenhagen and Mayer-Szilágyi Theatre Agency, Budapest.

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    Photos: Dániel Dömölky

     

  • Cast
    Alice Ónodi Eszter
    Manfred Kocsis Gergely
    Magrete Pelsőczy Réka
    Karl Rajkai Zoltán
    Glen Bányai Kelemen Barna
    Beckmann Keresztes Tamás
    Karola Tóth Zsófia
    Halbror Lengyel Benjámin
    Marek Vajdai Vilmos
    Manfred anyja Szirtes Ági
    Oskar Bezerédi Zoltán
  • Programme guide
  • Crew
    Set design Cziegler Balázs
    Costumes Füzér Anni
    Lights Lohár Antal
    Dramaturg Török Tamara
    Music Friedenthal Zoltán
    Choreography Blaskó Borbála
    Prompter Héricz Anna
    Stage manager Valovics István
    Assistant to director Tiwald György
    Director Máté Gábor
  • Reviews

    Revizoronline.hu - Urbán Balázs
    In Line Knutzon's play, The Builders, an intellectual/artist couple long for a quiet, beautiful home. Or rather, Alice, the wife, longs for it, but Manfred, the musician husband, doesn't care, so he leaves her to do whatever she wants. But the deadline for completing the construction is always changing, something always breaks down or someone finds another fault, other problems are never solved - but they have to pay again and again. The craftsmen are part crooks, part cheats, possibly both cheats and crooks, headed by the foreman, who carries the material that is constantly being stolen from the house to other construction sites. [...] The drama undoubtedly draws on life experiences (probably the experiences of all of us), but it does not process them realistically, but presents them in a basically farcical manner.
    Art7.hu - Kállai Katalin
    This daily inescapable set of problems, which, between us, threatens the functioning of the economy, can be turned into a serious social discussion paper, a lace-work farce or a dystopian vision of the future. Knutzon decided to put his all into it. A little bit. ialogues from a farce, stage situations from the reality of society's deformed functioning, and quite a bit of horror. Alice and Manfred, who have made the worst decision of their lives (starting a building project), and their friends celebrating their home in the making prematurely, start from a comedy situation. This line is reinforced by the over-caricatured, more or less Eastern European appearance and the exaggerated characters of the sleepy Saki, who permanently disturb their tranquillity.
    magyarnarancs.hu - Kiss Annamária - a teljes cikk a nyomtatott lapban olvasható
    Kutszelistilus.hu - Kutszegi Csaba


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