A cinematographic and theatrical director – his Pieces of a Woman won Vanessa Kirby the Volpi Cup in Venice and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress – the Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó comes to the Piccolo for the first time with a play that examines the theme of gender and ethnic identity in Eastern Europe.
Three generations of one family in a small apartment in Budapest. The grandmother refuses a medal of honour that is being offered to her as a Holocaust survivor; the mother needs to provide proof of her Jewish identity in order to obtain a place at school for her son in their new home in Berlin; as an adult, the son is in search of his own dimension as a homosexual man.
Each asks the same question: can we free ourselves of the conditioning of our identities that we have inherited? When is identity a privilege, and when, instead, does it become a burden? It all depends on the point of view.
With PARALLAX (the term describes the apparent change in position of an object if observed from different angles), the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, together with his independent company Proton Theatre, stages a family saga, painting a profoundly touching picture of the conditioning imposed by convention, from Eastern European Judaism to the LGBT+ community, which suffers significant restrictions in Hungary.
(Carmen Hornbostel, dramaturg, Wiener Festwochen)
Recommended for audiences aged 18 and over due to the presence of full-frontal nudity and explicit sexual acts
A show in Hungarian with surtitles in Italian and in English
Duration: 110’ without intermission
Cities
SEASON 2024/25
Wien | 27 - 31 May 2024
Wiener Festwochen | Info
Athens | 14 and 15 July 2024
Athens Epidaurus Festival | Info
Hamburg | 21 - 23 August 2024
International Summer Festival Kampnagel | Info
Genève | 11 - 12 September 2024
La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Comédie de Genève | Info
Paris | 10 - 18 October 2024
Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe, Festival d'Automne | Info
Three generations of one family in a small apartment in Budapest. The grandmother refuses a medal of honour that is being offered to her as a Holocaust survivor; the mother needs to provide proof of her Jewish identity in order to obtain a place at school for her son in their new home in Berlin; as an adult, the son is in search of his own dimension as a homosexual man.
Each asks the same question: can we free ourselves of the conditioning of our identities that we have inherited? When is identity a privilege, and when, instead, does it become a burden? It all depends on the point of view.
With PARALLAX (the term describes the apparent change in position of an object if observed from different angles), the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, together with his independent company Proton Theatre, stages a family saga, painting a profoundly touching picture of the conditioning imposed by convention, from Eastern European Judaism to the LGBT+ community, which suffers significant restrictions in Hungary.
(Carmen Hornbostel, dramaturg, Wiener Festwochen)
Recommended for audiences aged 18 and over due to the presence of full-frontal nudity and explicit sexual acts
A show in Hungarian with surtitles in Italian and in English
Duration: 110’ without intermission
Credits
Kornél Mundruczó / Proton Theatre
PARALLAX
text written by Kata Wéber
and including improvisation by the company
directed by Kornél Mundruczó
with Lili Monori, Emőke Kiss-Végh, Erik Major, Roland Rába, Sándor Zsótér, Csaba Molnár, Soma Boronkay
sets Monika Pormale
costumes Melinda Domán
lighting András Éltető
artistic collaborator and producer Dóra Büki
dramaturg Soma Boronkay, Stefanie Carp
music Asher Goldschmidt
choreography Csaba Molnár
a Proton Theatre production, co-produced with Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Comédie de Genève, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, International Summer Festival Kampnagel – Hamburg, CNDO Orléans, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève
with the support of 220volt, Számlázz.hu, Minorities Talents & Casting, Danubius Hotels
Recommended for audiences aged 18 and over due to the presence of full-frontal nudity and explicit sexual acts
A show in Hungarian with surtitles in Italian and in English