The Tót Family // Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre Timișoara (Romania)

Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre Timișoara (Romania)

The Tót family lives somewhere in a Banat village. Their only son is on the front during the Second World War. At the boy’s suggestion, a major suffering from nervous breakdown arrives at the family home on leave. The parents and the boy’s sister receive the officer as if their son’s fate depended solely on their hospitality: they walk on tiptoe, adjusting to his every demand, even though it becomes uncertain whether the son and the major are still fighting on the same side of the front. At first, submission is guided by hope; later, faced with madness, obedience becomes the only remaining response. How long can vulnerability be endured when decisions are driven by love? When does fear take control, and how does this state come to be perceived as normal? In Horváth Hunor’s staging, The Tót Family becomes a memento marked by black humor: the disintegration of the world is not a single spectacular moment, but rather a small crack in the plaster that spreads slowly and insidiously.

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Tót Lajos: Mátyás Zsolt Imre

Tót Mariska: Borbély B. Emília

Tót Ágika: Lőrincz Rita

The Major: Bandi András Zsolt

Postman Gyuri: Balázs Attila

Professor: Molnos András Csaba

Priest: Kocsárdi Levente

Gizi Gézáné: Tar Mónika

The Cesspit Cleaner: Tar Erik

Lőrincke: András Gedeon

Neighbours, operators: Foltányi Edina, Karsai Dóra, Vincze Erika

Narrator Örkény: Tóth D. Zsófia

Their son Gyula: Hajas Krisztián

Neighbour: Simonfi-Harkay Sándor

Child: Molnos Abigél

Band: Rășinar Ilie, Sărăcuț Titus, Marius Nina, Catina Dan Florin, Blescun Michael Bogdan

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