This production at the
Proton Theatre
, which shifts from
documentary-like realism
to a more abstract world of the subconscious, manages to create a
faithless postmodern reality
is frighteningly similar to our own. Hard-hitting moral questions, an unforgottable play.
A
world famous psychiatric hospital
in Hungary was forced to close down a few months ago. The building has since become
dilapidated
; the garden isovergrown with weeds and a handful of patients have been left to vegetate alone on the fourth floor. The patients with developed dementia are living in the empire of amnesia...
We have to
face the following questions
: how could society ever profit from one mental patient living a few years longer?
What is the point of helping those who suffer when it all leads to death anyway?
And besides, suffering is what propels humanity. When we numb ourselves with
modern medicine
we forget about religion and philosophy for good, albeit humanity found shelter in them before.
This production at the
Proton Theatre
, which shifts from
documentary-like realism
to a more abstract world of the subconscious, manages to create a
faithless postmodern reality
is frighteningly similar to our own, and seems to suggest that the ways in which we treat our elderly and our mentally ill is a window into deeper aspects of our society.
Tickets cost
3000 HUF, 2400 HUF for students.
