"The artist who has no genre" - review of The Coward's performance

Nina Bürger's report on the f21.hu website about the performance The Coward. Photo: Nándor Varju

The Coward - Monodrama for two mouths

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„What do we mean by the concept of freedom? Who sees their personal freedom in what? To live as a dependent wife without existential problems and love, or to jump into the oppressive unknown driven by an unexpectedly kindling attraction? It raises these questions Here and Now Company His performance entitled The Coward.

Operating in an apartment theater hidden in the heart of the city center, at Ráday utca 18 Here and Now Company unlike their improvisational performances, it was now made with a traditional production based on a short novel by Imre Sarkadi, who is undeservedly underrepresented these days. The Here and Now Company his performance gives a valid voice to the author's work of the same name, which was written in the sixties, but still captures basic human situations that have not become obsolete to this day.

The stage version realizes all of this in a familiar, intimate space, where the audience is part of the performance as if it were a bio set.

In sixty minutes, the performance revolves around questions of interdependence, relationship dependence, flare-ups of love, cheating, and partnerships between different social strata, with two talented actors and the four main characters they portray."