Sisso: Ernella’s at Wolf’s
The room theatrical performance of Ernella’s at Wolf’s has been put on stage by Szabolcs Hajdu. The filmmaker, who has achieved international successes too, cannot only speak about everyday problems in a life like way, not only gets into the painful Hungarian reality. But he shows them between the circumstances of theatre, but he would like to show way out of the trench, while he can elevate and turn the heavy stories into human tales with colours, music and atmosphere.
The basic story is as simple as in case of a soap opera. Wolf (Szabolcs Hajdu) and his wife Eszter (Orsolya Török-Illyés, who is his wife in real life too) and their little child, Bruno (Imre Gelányi) live in a flat. We can see some flashes of their life from the tale in the evening until the couple’s argument, while they are drinking a blue drink. It turns out immediately that nothing is normal with them. The mother is patient, the father has midlife crisis, aggressive, he is in his 40s with huge face. In an evening, suddenly Ernella (Erika Tankó) appears with twenty suitcases, she is Eszter’s sister, together with her depressive husband (Domokos Szabó) and little daughter (Ágota Szilágyi), who worries about her parents. We do not know how long the relatives, who have moved out to Ireland, would remain, but the teasing of each other is going on, but now in the circle of the extended family. The interactions are very close by words, and when a viewer laughs freely, he realises at once, that he has hurt himself with it. Because he can get into the line too, he has at least one spoiled relationship, jealous brother-in-law, a sibling who is in starvation, a relative, who has escaped abroad, or he has left his child behind because of his own nervous breakdown. He wish he could forget all these – then they perform it to him. In the performance, the children, who are thankfully performed by adults, perform a shocking play to the parents, which has its own theatrical values. Since then, we must want the better one, and the end is going towards it too. It is a family dinner, only with the cutleries, without people, for the tunes of Imagine. It is desperately full of love.
(TESZT Festival, Gergely Csiky Theatre of Temesvár, 24th May)
Sisso, Magyar Narancs, 2015
(translated by: Veronika Fülöp)
The basic story is as simple as in case of a soap opera. Wolf (Szabolcs Hajdu) and his wife Eszter (Orsolya Török-Illyés, who is his wife in real life too) and their little child, Bruno (Imre Gelányi) live in a flat. We can see some flashes of their life from the tale in the evening until the couple’s argument, while they are drinking a blue drink. It turns out immediately that nothing is normal with them. The mother is patient, the father has midlife crisis, aggressive, he is in his 40s with huge face. In an evening, suddenly Ernella (Erika Tankó) appears with twenty suitcases, she is Eszter’s sister, together with her depressive husband (Domokos Szabó) and little daughter (Ágota Szilágyi), who worries about her parents. We do not know how long the relatives, who have moved out to Ireland, would remain, but the teasing of each other is going on, but now in the circle of the extended family. The interactions are very close by words, and when a viewer laughs freely, he realises at once, that he has hurt himself with it. Because he can get into the line too, he has at least one spoiled relationship, jealous brother-in-law, a sibling who is in starvation, a relative, who has escaped abroad, or he has left his child behind because of his own nervous breakdown. He wish he could forget all these – then they perform it to him. In the performance, the children, who are thankfully performed by adults, perform a shocking play to the parents, which has its own theatrical values. Since then, we must want the better one, and the end is going towards it too. It is a family dinner, only with the cutleries, without people, for the tunes of Imagine. It is desperately full of love.
(TESZT Festival, Gergely Csiky Theatre of Temesvár, 24th May)
Sisso, Magyar Narancs, 2015
(translated by: Veronika Fülöp)