Pillars of Society

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Pillars of Society traces Karsten Bernick’s shift from a identification with a paternal figure to identification with a maternal figure

Ibsen’s dramatic texts focus the reader’s attention upon the protagonist’s enactment of self. These texts tend to position a central figure, the protagonist, between two other characters, each of whom represents a particular vision of the protagonist: who he is and how he should behave. Characteristically, these images of the protagonist’s self are intelligible in Oedipal terms. That is, the protagonist stands between a maternal and a paternal figure. Over the course of the action, the protagonist exchanges (of refuses to exchange) identification with one of these figures for identification with the other. For example, […]

Pillars of Society traces Karsten Bernick’s shift from a identification with a paternal figure to identification with a maternal figure, while Hjalmar Ekdal, the protagonist of The Wild Duck, does not make such an exchange. In this way, Ibsen’s texts stage the Oedipal crisis in a revised form.

Oliver W. Gerland

DIRECTOR: Bálint Botos
SCENOGRAPHY: Blanka-Alíz Bajkó
MUSIC: Magor Bocsárdi

CAST:
László Mátray, Ágnes Benedek, Márton Szőcs-Torma, Zsuzsa Gajzágó, Zsolt Fekete, Hajnalka Szalma, László Szakács, Zsuzsanna Vass, Dezső Derzsi, Gellért Pignitzky, Levente Nemes, József Kolcsár, Annamária D. Albu, Imola P. Magyarosi

If it is history we want, then it is a history of conflict.

But how did it all begin? If it is history we want, then it is a history of conflict. And the conflict begins with the abduction of a girl, or with the sacrifice of a girl. And the one is continually becoming the other. It was the “merchant wolves,” arriving by ship from Phoenicia, who carried off the tauropárthenos from Argos. Tauropárthenos means “the virgin dedicated to the bull.” Her name was Io. Like a beacon signaling from mountain to mountain, this rape lit the bonfire of hatred between the two continents.

From that moment on, Europe and Asia never stopped fighting each other, blow answering blow. Thus the Cretans, “the boars of Ida,” carried off Europa from Asia.

But how did it all begin?

Roberto Calasso

DIRECTOR: Bálint Botos
SCENOGRAPHY: Blanka-Alíz Bajkó
MUSIC: Magor Bocsárdi

CAST:
Gyöngyi Pál Ferenczi, Zsuzsa Gajzágó, Janka Korodi, Gellért Pignitzky, Bence Kónya-Ütő, Áron Beczásy, Tibor Pálffy, Dezső Derzsi, József Kolcsár, László Mátray, Ágnos Benedek, Mária Fekete, Imola P. Magyarosi, Hajnalka Szalma, Zsuzsanna Vass