Translator: Miklós Hubay 
(using the works of Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Goethe)
Director: Zsuzsanna Juraszek and the Company

On March 1, 2023, the Maladype Theater presented a special stage adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play: Flies, co-directed by Zsuzsanna Juraszek and the Company in the Chamber Hall of Eötvös10.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Nobel Prize-winning French playwright and novelist, philosopher, a defining figure of the existentialism movement of the 20th century. His publication created a new era in the history of both philosophy and literature: in his work, he realized these two as an inseparable unit. Apostrophized as the pinnacle of modern French literature, the contours of his oeuvre were drawn by his volumes of short stories, novels, dramatic works, and philosophical-ontological works translated into many languages of the world.

The Flies is Jean-Paul Sartre's first drama, which was published in 1943 almost at the same time as the author's main work, Being and Nothingness - Sketch of a Phenomenological Ontology. In the play, in accordance with his specific philosophical system, he reached back to a classic drama topos, the myth of the House of Atreida, including the story of Orest, in order to explore the nature of freedom, which in his opinion is not a matter of current power, but of the people.

Sartre's Orest is independent of everything and everyone: he has nothing but his freedom. Everything and everyone is foreign to him: he has no memories of the people of Argos and his own sister, the enslaved Electra. His freedom from his rootlessness surrounds him like a weightless float: he longs to find a way, a deed that is only his, by which - even at the cost of the crime of murdering the king - he can free his sister, "filling the void in the place of his heart".

In the performance of the Maladype Theatre, the emphasis of Sartre's idea is placed on the collision of the inner life of the individual, the desire to connect with "others" and the freedom of oneself, from social criticism interwoven with politics. Borrowing from the classics of Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Goethe, the didactic-free all-arts performance asks about the eternal problem of confronting and confronting our own loneliness.

Cast:
Jupiter: Gedeon András
Orest: Zoltán Pál
Pulades: Gáspár Mesés
Elektra: Andrea Lukács
Aigist: Kornél Ádám
Klytaimnestra/Erinn: Lilla Zsenák
Iphigenia - Elektra's conscience/Erinn: Brigitta Erőss

Creators:
Dramaturg: Zsuzsanna Juraszek
Leader of music: Brigitta Erőss
Costume designer: Daniella Bernadett Kiss g.a.
Scenographer: Zoltán Balázs
Creative producer: Sylvia Huszár
Production manager: Katalin Balázs

Opening Night: 1 March 2023, Eötvös10, Chamber Hall

Running time: 60 minutes

The performance was created with the permission of the heirs of Jean-Paul Sartre.
Hungarian stage rights: Hofra Theater and Literary Agency.