Travel Tip: Pop Culture and Cinema in Hungary
Lorenzaccio

Alfred de Musset: Lorenzaccio
Sándor Zsótér, director
Dramaturgy and translated by Júlia Ungár

Performance in Hungarian

Florence, early 16th century. The prince is debauched, without moral scruples. The aristocrats and citizens protest but they are unable to join forces. A young man, Lorenzo de Medici, decides to do away with the tyrant single-handedly. He joins the prince and becomes his friend, sycophant and evil spirit. The acting is perfect but the mask becomes too much a part of Lorenzo, who sacrifices not only his reputation but also his family and friends for his plan that increasingly becomes an obsession. Finally he succeeds, the tyrant is dead, but nothing changes: Lorenzo himself runs into the murderous dagger and a totally unsuitable puppet figure is chosen in his place. Alfred de Musset’s drama written in 1834, the “Hamlet of Romanticism”, full of poetic beauty and strikingly modern in its attitude, is rarely performed in Hungary. Of course, this is partly because the original play calls for sixty changes of scene and four hundred characters. Here Sándor Zsótér stages it with five actors from the Maladype company.

With Kamilla Fátyol, Zoltán Lendváczky, Ákos Orosz, Zsolt Páll, Ádám Tompa

Dramaturgy and translated by Júlia Ungár
Sets: Mária Ambrus
Costumes: Mari Benedek
Dramaturgy: Júlia Ungár