A József Attila Theater his company is facing a rather dense period, with several premieres in the 2021/22 season to the delight of theater fans. The team will also take the story of Fly to the Cuckoo’s Nest, which will premiere on November 27th. The story is briefly about simulating a mental disorder, McMurphy is transferred from a penitentiary to a mental institution, where he quickly becomes a voice to the groom.
Ken Kesey’s novel was filmed back in 1975, and a film starring Jack Nicholson became a huge success during that time. The theater has a legendary story Frigyes Funtek arrange Randle P. McMurphyt Balázs Chajnóczki, the sadistic Ratched Sister Anna Anna, Cheswick, a resident of a mental hospital Gábor Fekete transforms. According to the director, this drama will be relevant in 2021 as well, he told Andrea Soós in the podcast of Femina, which you can listen to below.
The Hotel will also be on display at the József Attila Theater
– What makes it current? In my opinion, from the fact that in this whole covid situation, I have the feeling that we have become a worldwide mental institution, full of Sisters Ratched, ”the director of the play began.
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According to Frigyes Funtek. He said there are also volunteer fools in the institute who could no longer withstand the pressure of the outside world. He thinks this is also topical because he has found it increasingly difficult to endure our own lives. He sees McMurphy’s character as a chicken catcher who, after moving in, disrupts the lives of his companions, playing a sort of savior role.
As a director, this play is a challenge because it’s rare to have so many characters, so in the evenings, when you get home, you feel a lot more tired than usual.
Anna White remembers when she saw the film in the ’80s, a story that meant a whole different thing to her in those years.
“In the’ 80s, between good, bad, dictatorship, and the desire for freedom, the meaning of the story was a little clearer, probably because we lived in a different world, and a country might have reacted to it differently than it does today. We imagined that if some darkness was over, sausage would be the fence and my freedom would be completely unlimited.
He believes the piece has a source of humor, not only self-irony but also grotesque humor appears in the characters, not to mention that they all strive to work out their own characters as much as possible.
When I saw this performance, I was very attracted to that strange secret and the fact that we could see into something we couldn’t get into.
He finds it interesting that people are there in a mental hospital voluntarily, not because they really need medical help. They force themselves into a dictatorship in which they suffer, but do not dare to take responsibility and do not step out of their situation. Instead, those who make the rules are insulted. A kind of comfort also develops during their exposure.
He doesn’t see McMurphy as a character who strives to change the daily lives of the institute’s residents, yet he finds himself in a situation where he becomes a savior.
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He has discovered some bitterness in his character, Sister Ratched, as he can only live by his own rules, and he finds his role very difficult because he thinks his character does things that even he himself is shivering about.
Balázs Chajnóczki, who played McMurphy, told us that he had previously played in the play in Miskolc, when he shaped the character of the stuttering boy Billy Bibbit. He deliberately did not watch the film or read the book, but rather tries to decipher the character of their characters with his colleagues.
“Everyone is the protagonist in this play, everyone is on stage from start to finish, if you’re not watching McMurphy, Ratchid or Bromden, the viewer will be adventuring to see what happens to him.
Everyone has to live a life on stage all the way, or hell!
Chajnóczki added that he thinks this piece will forge the company well, but it is also a serious challenge.
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For Gábor Fekete, Cheswick’s figure is special because it was not clear from the novel or the film exactly what his illness is and why he is in the institute at all. He hopes he can decipher his figure with his colleagues.
“What I like about this is how the will of Cheswick and the other cared for awakens. A rebel enters, who in some ways can be compared to the story of salvation, while also bringing destruction, as he pulls them out of their own comfort zone, their usual life, right at the beginning.
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