Dancer in the Dark

Patrick Ellsworth:

The imperfection of the judicial system, and its inevitable errors, can be considered bearable when counterbalanced by divine justice. But what if the immanent justice also fails? Selma, an immigrant living in the USA in the 1960s, who is in love with musicals, seems to be the perfect victim of both faces of justice. Selma is a loving mother, good friend, eternal dreamer, but she will be destroyed by the money and interest-driven putrid system in American pseudo-democracy. By using the generous genre of the musical, the performance asks questions about the inerrability of the legal system, the American Dream and our personal limits.

Running time: 3h, including an intermission

Performed in Hungarian with surtitles and simultaneous translation in English and Romanian

based on the film by Lars von Trier

Musical composed by Vlaicu Golcea

Translated by Demény Péter

Choreography: Cristina Lilienfeld

Set design: Mihai Donici

Costume design: Mihaela Crețescu

Sound-design assistant: Uțu Pascu

Cast:

Selma: Magyari Etelka

Gene: Makkai Gergő