Nézőpont Theatre of Székelyudvarhely, Romania is the first private Hungarian theatre in Transylvania. The company led by Ádám Kroó chose a contemporary British play for their third production following Csongor and Tünde, a Hungarian classic and The Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig. The first performance of Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money in Hungarian was directed by Pál Göttinger, who graduated last year from the University of Drama Film and Television in Budapest. The production was designed by Zsuzsa Bagoly, another fresh graduate from Bucharest. The premiere was in November 2007, the first time a play by Dennis Kelly, the devil of contemporary British drama, appeared in front of Hungarian audiences.

The performance was selected into the official program of the 2008 National Theatre Festival Pécs, which presents the best new productions of each theatre season. At the same festival Kata Bartsch won the award for Best Actress Under Thirty.

The performance is the result of a two-week “residential” rehearsal process. The actors and creators lived and worked together 24 hours a day to emerge with a fresh, energetic production by a young company trying to define itself in the Hungarian  theatre scene in the country and beyond its borders.

Love and Money tells the story of the complete disintegration of a relationship filled with love and illusions in a society, where only property can impersonate self-identity. As they accumulate more and more depts, the personalities of Jess and David gradually fall apart in their life-and-death struggle against the bills. Do they have a chance of reversing the irreversible?

CAST:
Kata Bartsch, Ádám Kroó, Kinga Tamás, Gábor Viola, Tekla Magyari, Ányos Elek

Set: Zsuzsa Bagoly
Hungarian translation / dramaturg: Zsuzsa Várady
Directed by: Pál Göttinger