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“I’ve always wanted to talk about my body, the body that speaks for me...” The opening of Ádám Fekete’s stand-up monodrama is an absurdly extended rabbit joke that leads us into the labyrinth of the Hungarian healthcare system, from which, like something straight out of Gogol’s (or Lynch’s?) overcoat, more rabbits and carrots keep emerging. Before long, we find ourselves at hip replacement surgery, around which this fragmented yet engaging autobiographical cabaret, interwoven with fiction, takes shape. Pain as an integral part of identity is laid on the table – or rather, the surgical tray – alongside a critical examination of the everyday experience of disability, sexuality and the overactive male ego. And throughout it all, we laugh a lot. Even at the terrifying operation, which Fekete’s stage persona recounts step by step, with a uncontrived naturalism. Anyone who has been through something similar will likely find themselves involuntarily recalling their own experiences. As for me, I didn’t mind in the end: I was able to take part in taming fear and the paralysing loss of control. The self-vivisection continues, with a succession of funny and/or awkwardly personal episodes and fragments: childhood memories, strange dreams and crushes. Ádám Fekete’s acerbic yet deeply human, sarcastic humour is at its sharpest in this performance. He resorts to one of his favourite creative strategies: throwing the spectator off balance, while avoiding the obvious. Even in speaking about the body, he seeks his own nonconformist narrative.”
(Judit Böröcz, curator)
Writes, directs, performs and also perforates himself: Ádám FEKETE
Sound and light management: Ádám LANGÓ
Roger: András FEHÉR
Partners and sponsors: FÜGE Productions, Municipality of Budapest, Ministry of Culture and Innovation, Jurányi Art Incubator House
▷▷ More information about the performance ▷▷ https://www.dunapart.net/en/program/schedule.html?cikk_id=20300
▷▷ The full 𝐝𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭7 programme is available here ▷▷ https://www.dunapart.net/en/program/schedule.html
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Event venue
Jurányi Produkciós Közösségi Inkubátorház, Jurányi utca 1-3.,Budapest, Hungary
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