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November 24, 2009
Contemporary Hungarian Playwright György Spiró's Play 'PRAH' Performed by Radnóti Színház in Washington, DC
On the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall, as well as the proclamation of the Republic of Hungary, the Embassy invited the theatre troupe of Radnóti Színház from Budapest to present a performance of Hungarian contemporary playwright György Spiró’s tragic comedy titled ’PRAH’.
The play, which has been on the program of Radnóti Színház for more than two years and received positive critical acclaim in Hungary, was directed by Péter Valló, and premiered in Hungarian with English supertitles in downtown Washington at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint on Tuesday, November 24.
The two-men show is about a poor couple living in a small Hungarian countryside town. Played by Enikő Börcsök (Actress of Vígszínház) and Zoltán Schneider (Actor of Radnóti Színház), the couple find themselves in a situation, which most of us only dream about: they hit the jackpot on the lottery.
The tragic comedy play presents the sad, but inevitable mental process and verbal dialogue between husband and wife which they go through from the first shocks of joy and waves of delight through anxiety to the final decision, enforced by their fear of each other, their family and immediate surroundings, to burn the winning lottery ticket.
Both performances, played at 6:30pm and 9:00pm at Mead Theatre Lab, were enjoyed by a full house audience, which demanded the return of the troupe next year. The benefactor ticket holders of the first performance were entitled to attend the post-performance reception at the Residence of the Hungarian Ambassador, along with VIPs of the corporate sponsors of the play, International Club of DC and The Great British Pine Mine.
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