What’s Up with You, Everyman?
-participatory bliss-
Anyone can be Everyman. Transposing the allegorical medieval morality play to present day, we encounter situations familiar to us all, while we are confronted with ourselves and certain mechanisms of our society. In this play, socially critical performance the protagonist, Everyman, asks the seminal question: is it worth being born into the world today? In short scenes, the characters of the performance seek to answer this question, using text, song, dance and music to illuminate the stages of human life - sometimes with humour and irony, sometimes in a lyrical way. They don't give their audiences a traditional role as spectators but offer them the opportunity to become a community. One of the tools to achieve it called Soundpainting, a real-time composition technique, a universal conductor's sign language developed in the 1970s by an American composer, Walter Thomson. The players use this technique to involve the audience as participators in the play and provide an opportunity for everyone to reflect upon their own lives and questions.
The play is for everyone who has ever wondered what the meaning of life is and what are the things worth living for. After the play, everyone is given a chance to continue searching for answers to the questions posed through playful exercises. At the end of the performance, the actors invite the audience for a discussion.
Players:
Adam Darázs, Yvette Feuer, David Hajmási, Erika Manyasz,
Soundpainting and Musical consultant: Samu Gryllus
Poem: Judit-Agnes Kiss
Coreography: Jessica Simet
Created by the players, Fruzsina Háda and György Somhegyi
The production has been commissioned by PRODUCTION3 Project supported by the Creative Europe Program.
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