Production of the Katona József Theatre 

BARBARIANS

Author: Maxim GORKY

Translated by Andor Gábor

DIRECTED BY TAMÁS ASCHER

SET: ZSOLT KHELL
COSTUMES: GYÖRGYI SZAKÁCS
LIGHT-DESIGNER: TAMÁS BÁNYAI
MUSIC: ÁRPÁD KÁKONYI
DRAMATURG:GÉZA FODOR
ASSISTANT: GYÖRGY TIWALD

PREMIERE: 14 NOVEMBER, 2008

CAST:

CHERKUN, YEGOR PETROVICH, engineer:    ERVIN NAGY
ANNA FIODOROVNA, his wife:     RÉKA TENKI
TSIGANOV, SERGEY NIKOLAEVICH, engineer:    GÁBOR MÁTÉ
BOGAIEVSKAIA, TATIANA NIKOLAEVNA, house-owner:    ÁGI SZIRTES
LIDIA PAVLOVNA, her niece:    ADÉL JORDÁN
REDOZUBOV, VASILY IVANOVICH, mayor:    DÉNES UJLAKI
GRISHA, Redozubov’s son:   FERENC ELEK
KATIA, Redozubov’s daughter:   RENÁTA TAR
PRITIKIN, ARHIP FOMICH, merchant:   PÉTER TAKÁTSY
PRITIKINA, PALAGEIA IVANOVNA, his wife:   RÉKA PELSŐCZY
MONAHOV, MAVRIKIJ OSIPOVICH, tax-officer:   ERNŐ FEKETE
MONAHOVA, NADEZDA POLIKARPOVNA, his wife:   ESZTER ÓNODI
GOLOVASTIKOV, PAVLIN SAVELIEVICH, Redozubov’s friend:   JÁNOS BÁN
DROBIAZGIN, excise officer:   LEHEL KOVÁCS
DR MAKAROV:   GERGELY KOCSIS
VESELKINA, the post-master’s daughter:   ANNA PÁLMAI
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE:   GYŐZŐ SZABÓ
IVAKIN, bee-raiser:   LÁSZLÓ SZACSVAY
LUKIN STEPAN, student, Ivakin’s cousin:  DANKÓ ISTVÁN
GOGIN, MATVEY, young man:   ÁDÁM KOVÁCS
STIOPA, maid at Cherkuns’:   ANITA TÓTH
BEGGAR:   ZOLTÁN RAJKAI

”There are twenty-two excellent actors in the performance. The bests are Gábor Máté as a cynical, but always sober alcoholic in love, Ervin Nagy as the Onegin-like engineer, Cherkun, who wants to ameliorate the world, but is unable to have real feelings, Réka Tenki as the sensitive, startled Anna, Adél Jordán as Lidia with her objective intellect, Ernő Fekete as the disintegrated Monahov, Ági  Szirtes as the wise and jovial noblewoman.  (…) The performance is characterized by well-analyzed characters as situations, as usual in Ascher’s performances, and a comic aspect with bitter humour, that goes beyond the human and social problems of the play.”

(László Zappe, Népszabadság)

„”The company of the Katona Theatre makes the audience take delight in the wonderful actors playing rich characters full of minor details worth noticing. It is them, the actors and the director, Tamás Ascher, working with micriscopic accuracy,  who create what is missing from the play. Thanks to them,  the performance created from the play is not didactic or boring at all. Gorkij gives us much less details of the characters. So it is a play that is worth putting on stage only with an extremely company – such as that of the Katona.

(Zsófia Bán, revizoronline)