Constellations

The suicide

a drama about time and memory, about death and grief, playful and profound, comic and mournful

It is a high-concept romance – a Sliding Doors to the power of 100 – and many other things at once: a drama about time and memory, about death and grief, playful and profound, comic and mournful. It asks big questions about existence, purpose and free will but, like the helium balloons in the backdrop, also feels weightless and fun.

It affirms life, love and companionship even as it drives towards the death of its ending. A theatrical multiverse indeed.

Arifa Akbar

DRECTING AND SCENOGRAPHY: Bálint Botos

CAST:
Andrei Brădean, Ana Șusca

Growing frustrations, bitterness, disappointments, and in some cases boredom, bring the characters to the brink of self destruction, but for lack of true commitment or control, they fail.

The failed suicides are mainly plot devices to either just simply keep the story line going or to allow for a change in direction in the characters’ lives. Growing frustrations, bitterness, disappointments, and in some cases boredom, bring the characters to the brink of self destruction, but for lack of true commitment or control, they fail. We as viewers of their failures respond in a humorous manner because the authors either make it clear that their characters are not capable of success or that the attempt is merely a ploy to bring about their desired change.

In short, the failed suicides are comic because the situations are created in a nontraditionally absurd framework. We can’t take the plans for suicide too seriously when all the characters do is talk or use ineffective means or act over-sentimentally. Yet, while we realize the comic nature of these situations, we are also reminded of the bitterness of life that creates the need to even consider ending it all and to then, for severed reasons, be forced to continue.

Marilynn J. Smith

DIRECTOR: Botos Bálint
STAGE DESIGN: Golicza Előd
COSTUME DESIGN: Jeli Sára Luca
MUSIC: Trabalka Cecília
SOUND DESIGN: Hodu Péter

Cast:
István Hunyadi, Noémi Tasnádi-Sáhy, Júlia Molnár, Levente Dimény, Réka Fodor, Tünde Tóth, Cecília Trabalka, Attila Balogh, Gyula Kocsis, Lóránt Csatlós, Levente Kovács, Dávid Scurtu, Anna Kocsis, József Szotyori, Ádám Tőtős, Ilián Vanca-Fodor