- adaptation after Eschil de ÁGNES KALI și GÁBOR TOMPA
- Directed by: Gábor Tompa
- Assistant director: Erwin Șimșensohn
- Scenography: Carmencita Brojboiu
- Original music: Vasile Șirli
- Dramaturgy: Ágnes Kali
- Choreography: Ferenc Sinkó
- Video: Radu Daniel
- Stage manager: Réka Zongor
- Set and costume assistant: Gyopár Bocskai
Prometeu'22 is a coproduction from Hungarian Theater of Cluj - SNT Drama Ljubljana - Constanța State Theater.
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
Cast
- Protagonist: Igor Samobor
- Zeus, the director: Gábor Viola
- Hera, directing assistant: Cătălina Mihai
- Luca, lighting chief: Áron Dimény
- Prometheus: Igor Samobor
- Cratos: Tamás Kiss
- Cratos: Florin Aioane
- Cratos: Domen Novak
- Bia: Anikó Pethő
- Hephaistos: Áron Dimény
- Io: Ecaterina Lupu
- Io: Eva Jesenovec
- Io: Eszter Román
- Hermes: Mirela Pană
- Okeanos: Zsolt Bogdán
- Main correspondent: Dana Dumitrescu
- Influencer: Andreea Vindis
- Radio reporter: Ecaterina Lupu
- Radio reporter: Eva Jesenovec
- Radio reporter: Eszter Román
- Camera operator: Domen Novak
- Camera operator: Florin Aioane
- Camera operator: Tamás Kiss
- The expert: Florin Aioane
- The expert: Domen Novak
- The expert: Tamás Kiss
Photo Gallery
Video
Reviews
The production by Tompa is a theatrical manifesto for these "unhinged times," representing the declared trust of the artists involved in the performance in the purpose and power of theater to pose questions to the community—questions that, in truth, demand answers from each spectator as part of humanity. How could we halt this free fall caused by illusions inflated by insatiable greed? Not the thirst for knowledge, but greed for news; not the desire to understand, but greed for entertainment (!); the inability to experience joy; the craving for the "eternal youth" flaunted by media celebrities in stories increasingly devoid of truth... the fear of suffering and the transformation of the smallest discomfort into a disaster; the addiction to living in a mediated reality, in front of ever-larger screens capable of consuming our entire being. It's no coincidence that the chorus—who, in Aeschylus, comments on Prometheus' audacity to oppose Zeus' absolute and arbitrary power—is portrayed on stage by Tompa as a group of media characters, chaotic, ridiculous, and uninterested in or incapable of seeking and telling the truth. This interpretation unmistakably reveals our world, entirely conditioned by media, a medium with a narcotic effect, broadcasting and contagiously spreading its own confusion. This staging avoids any didactic tones and possesses the playful force needed to transform tragedy into everyday grotesque. Tompa's theatrical and intellectual demonstration is impeccable, showing that the suspension of aspirations for faith, hope, beauty, truth, and justice plunges the human condition into absurdity. These are not "grand words" but values from which humanity cannot abdicate without losing the authentic meaning of life.
Crenguța MANEA/Teatrul Azi nr. 11-12 2022
In the role of Io, the beautiful maiden transformed into a heifer and condemned to wander, tormented by the sting of a gadfly due to Zeus' love and Hera's jealousy, actress Ecaterina Lupu impresses with her ability to deliver the lines of ancient theater while embodying a visible contradiction: a modern, lost girl. As the loathed Hermes, Zeus' messenger tasked with extracting a secret from Prometheus, the audience is delighted to discover actress Mirela Pană in a memorable androgynous role. Clad in a light blue two-piece suit, her character’s words—those of a cunning diplomat—are laced with venom, in a dialogue that aspires (merely aspires) to maintain a lofty tone, both figuratively and literally, as if between equals. Every idea is dutifully executed, or noted in a block-note when it isn’t, by Hera, the assistant director, played by Cătălina Mihai, an actress with an unmistakable playful style.
Mirela STÎNGĂ/CulturaConstanța.ro
https://culturaconstanta.ro/printre-amfore-si-sarma-ghimpata-prometeu-a-ajuns-si-la-constanta/