Bálint Borsi – Ábel Horváth – Ádám Nyári: Pál Futaki and the Devil
Concert
Performance
Theater
Pop
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Bálint Borsi – Ábel Horváth – Ádám Nyári: Pál Futaki and the Devil
This programme is held in Hungarian.
At the center of the story stands Pál Futaki, a self-appointed pub bard who vegetates amid the smoky scenery of the Kapufa Dive Bar on the edge of town. But one evening the Devil walks through the door of the suburban bar and invites him to gamble: if Pál wins, he can gain absolution from his hopeless life; if he loses, his soul will belong to the Devil. With no better plans, Pál accepts the challenge—after all, what can be lost by someone who sits down to play not for survival or glory, but purely out of boredom, for the sake of the game itself, with the Devil as his opponent? The consequences, however, affect not only him, but also his former lover and his surroundings, and it slowly becomes clear that more is at stake than he thought.
Pál Futaki and the Devil is an interdisciplinary performance in which poetry, music, and unconventional stage solutions are given equal weight. It is a darkly humorous, ballad-like and playful epic, a musical tragicomedy that does not treat serious questions with solemnity. It does not moralize; instead, it plays with the themes of fate, choice, and responsibility, while using grotesque and absurd devices to create its own dreamlike world.
The creative team behind the production represents the experimental direction of contemporary Hungarian theatre and literature. Our aim is to use a shared language born on the borderlands of poetry, music, and theatre arts to provide exciting, modern frameworks for the genre of the morality play. In this way, the piece is both a tribute to Hungarian alternative visual and music culture and a fresh, experimental interpretation of their legacy.
“Sometimes I get lucky,” sighs Pál, “but mostly I hit the ground with a thud.”
Writer: Bálint Borsi
Composer: Ábel Horváth
Director: Ádám Nyári
Scenographer: Szabolcs Sziládi
Animation: Soma Gelencsér
Guitar: Ábel Horváth
Drums: Péter Lukács
Bass guitar: Mátyás Mohácsi
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
eSzínház Online: Mátyás Antal, József Balog, Gábor Boldoczki and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
