THE PRIESTESS
KRÉTAKÖR BUDAPEST - OSONÓ thatre
Premiere: October 21, 2011 - Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
TRAILER
crew
Students:
Márta Bajka, Levente Sándor Bartha, Emese Boldizsár, Annamária Daró, Zsolt Dima, Jolán Dobondi, Kinga Kati Gábor, Kikerics Kata Imre-Muntean, Eszter Incze, Attila Komán, Janka Korodi, Erika Lukács, Erzsébet Maksai, Ágnes Márton, István Ötvös, Tímea Mónika Tankó
Cast:
Lilla Gát: Lilla Sárosdi
PE Teacher: Sándor Terhes
Priest: Lóránd Bartha
Balázs Gát: Kálmán Bíró
Professional partners:
Misi Fazakas, Lóránd Bartha, Oszkár Mucha, Bernadette Daragics
Writer, director: Árpád Schilling
SYNOPSIS
The Priestess is the third part of Krétakör's artistic trilogy "Crisis." "Crisis" tells the story of the Gát family, with each part exploring a different family member through various performing arts forms. The first part, the film "jp.co.de," follows the dreamlike journey and coming-of-age attempts of the eighteen-year-old son, Balázs Gát. The second part, titled "Ungrateful Brats," unfolds the story of the family head, Gyula Gát, a 45-year-old child psychiatrist, in the form of a chamber opera.
The trilogy concludes with "The Priestess," focusing on the mother, Lilla Gát. Once a celebrated actress in the capital, she now works as a dedicated drama teacher in a remote Hungarian village far from Budapest. Her unconventional pedagogical methods are met with suspicion by those around her. Her venture ultimately fails: first her fellow teachers, then the village inhabitants, her students, and finally her own son turn against her. Consequently, she is forced to leave the village and return to the capital.
The theatrical performance involves 16 students selected through a program announced among Hungarian students in Romania, in collaboration with the Osonó Theatre from Sfântu Gheorghe. The production was created using innovative theatre-pedagogical methods.
DEPARTURES
Csíkszereda, Târgu Mureș, Brussels, Vilnius, Vienna, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Cluj-Napoca, Berlin