The performance features excerpts from:
Agnus dei, Symphony No. 3 and other works by Krzysztof Penderecki
Concerto in C minor (BWV 974) by Johann Sebastian Bach; Miserere, Op. 44 by Henrik Górecki
excerpts from works by Arvo Pärt
as well as compositions:
Pandora's Box, performed by Christian Marklei; Chill, performed by the Joshua Redman Quartet
Shining performed by Peter Krüder and the Peace Orchestra; Round Trip performed by Eric Truffaz
Little Blue Something performed by the Kronos Quartet; I Want You She’s So Heavy performed by The Beatles.
and others
"The Process" is the second play staged at the Alexandrinsky Theater by one of the leaders of the modern European stage, artistic director of the Hungarian National Theater (Nemzeti Szinház) Attila Vidnyansky. The first was a production based on F. M. Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment (2016). A performance of detailed reflection of the world of the novel and psychological polyphony of images. The leading theme of the performance was the loss of God, the influence of atheism, the plunge into chaos. Already here the presence and the onset of absurdity was revealed and emphasized scenographically (scenography - Maria Tregubova, Alexei Tregubov). Dostoevsky also manifested himself as a forerunner of Kafka in a world that had split apart and was not coming together into a unified whole.
Attila Vidnyansky graduated from the directing course at the Karpenko-Karoly Theatre Institute in Kiev in 1992. With a group of graduates of the Hungarian course at the Kiev Theater Institute he founded the Gyula Iyesz Hungarian Theater in Beregov, Transcarpathia (Western Ukraine) in 1993 and became its artistic director. In 2004 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Hungarian Opera Theater in Budapest; in 2006 he became Artistic Director of the Csokonai Theater in Debrecen. Since 2013 he has been General Director and Artistic Director of the Hungarian National Theater, where he has staged more than 20 productions.
Attila Vidyansky's turn to The Trial looks more than natural today, first of all because of the philosophy of the director's work. But partly also because of history. The German-speaking classic of 20th century literature Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Austria-Hungary, and died on June 3, 1924. "The Process" was created in 1914-1915, but the novel was published, like many of the author's works, after his death, in 1925.
"Someone apparently slandered Josef K., because, having done nothing wrong, he was arrested," so begins the philosophical and unfinished novel by Franz Kafka.
The premiere is December 3, 2021
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In Russian tradition, Franz Kafka's world is a monotonous, black and gray world of despair more absurd than fantastic. Attila Vidnyansky has staged a visually vivid, multicolored performance in St. Petersburg. Ordinary objects lose their real outlines here. A multi-storey building is the size of a refrigerator. A cup with a splash of coffee frozen on the fly turns out to be huge, pulsating with an alarming fire. The world loses its real outlines. The scenography and costumes of "The Process" were created by artists Maria Tregubova and Alexei Tregubov. Ordinary reality is disconnected, dismembered, deceptive and can no longer serve as a support for a person. The world in which Josef K. finds himself is eccentric at best, but this eccentricity is ready to explode into phantasmagoria. Not a judicial accusation, but an unreal world looms over the man here.
Maria Ivanova. The Alexandrinsky Theater has produced "The Trial" based on Franz Kafka's novel
