Evilface
The winning project of the Stand Up Roma call for proposals, launched in collaboration with Trafó and the Independent Theatre Hungary.
Artists
Tallér Edina drámaíró
Gerner Csaba színész
Short description
A performance that straddles the line between stand-up and monodrama: an actor gives acting lessons to build a character, while realizing that every lesson is about him. Behind every role lies the same question: is it possible to see ourselves as ourselves when the world always sees us as someone else?
The way the world looks at us constantly shapes who we are, what we think about ourselves, and we shape the world by how we look back at it. Bad Face explores this interplay: how identity is not a permanent, fixed thing, but a constant relearning.
The protagonist of the monodrama does not fit into any social “box”: he faces ethnic prejudice because of his skin color, political labels because of his baldness, and distancing because of his physique. His appearance has always determined who he is all his life, even before he can speak. Now on stage, he takes back control of the narrative and tells us what we are like.
The new play by playwright Edina Tallér and actor Csaba Gerner examines how everyday, yet systematically repeated, micro-discriminations shape a person's life - from shoplifting and "routine checks" to medical examinations and rejections at work.
Rosszarc is a fiction, theater play, and human mirror based on personal experiences: it explores the possibility of whether we are able to distinguish prejudice from experience, whether we have the ability to connect to the community, and to approach each other and thus ourselves without prejudice.
Támogatók:
Stages, Kreatív Európa
