Ferenc Molnár: Liliom

drama in two acts

Scheduled premiere: 28 February 2025

Considering the over 50-year-long dominance of folk plays, it was a bold move in 1909 for the author, Ferenc Molnár, to choose a poor city-dweller, an utterly non-idealized scoundrel as his protagonist. Whether Molnár was writing about himself and the trials of his relationship and subsequent marriage to Margit Vészi in the character of Liliom as the loafer who seduces the virtuous maid Julika and resorts to physical violence for money, remains a subject of debate among literary historians to this day. However, the focus shift from this question to the moral message of the work: the capacity for forgiveness, the possibility or impossibility of it, and the eternal validity of sin. The interrelatedness of accusation and penance unfolds in the same space and time, which appears like a vision in the protagonist’s calvary.

Director: István K. Szabó

Information


Location:Csokonai Fórum, Latinovits Zoltán stage

Cast










The Hollunder boy

Kukovecz Ákos e.h.



Hózlinger/First


Policeman/Second




Stage manager

Mónika Császár


Prompter

Kató Anikó


Assistant director

Sóvágó Csaba


Coreographer

Katona Gábor

Harangozó Gyula-award


Set designer

Horesnyi Balázs


Costume designer

Rátkai Erzsébet


Music

Cári Tibor


Director

Szabó K. István

Jászai Mari- award

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