Nexxt
Frau Plastic Chicken Show
By István Tasnádi
Directed by Árpád Schilling (Hungary)
Assistant Director Balázs Erös
Choreography Éva Magyar
Set design Márton Agh
Costumes design Klára Varga
Light design Tamás Bányai
Music András Monori
Props Róbert Noszlopi
Video Péter Hollós
Image András Nagy
Project Manager Máté Gáspár
Starring
Dorottya Udvaros, Zoltán Mucsi, Viktor Bodó, Sándor Terhes, Gergely Bánki, Annamária Láng, Borbála Péterfy, Sándor Csányi, Zsolt Nagy, Lia Pokorny, Lilla Sárosdi, András Vinnai, Tivadar Pálóczy, Gábor Rácz, Tibor Aichinger, Zsolt Kovács, Péter Jelasity, András Monori, Péter Nagy
Choreography Éva Magyar
Set design Márton Agh
Costumes design Klára Varga
Light design Tamás Bányai
Music András Monori
Props Róbert Noszlopi
Video Péter Hollós
Image András Nagy
Project Manager Máté Gáspár
Starring
Dorottya Udvaros, Zoltán Mucsi, Viktor Bodó, Sándor Terhes, Gergely Bánki, Annamária Láng, Borbála Péterfy, Sándor Csányi, Zsolt Nagy, Lia Pokorny, Lilla Sárosdi, András Vinnai, Tivadar Pálóczy, Gábor Rácz, Tibor Aichinger, Zsolt Kovács, Péter Jelasity, András Monori, Péter Nagy
Premiere: October 13, 2000 - Bárka Theatre as part of the Budapest Autumn Festival
Co-production : Krétakör Színház (Budapest, Hungary),
Festival d'Avignon (France), La Rose des vents (Scène nationale de Villeneuve d'Ascq, France), THEOREM (association supported by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union)
Contrary to what you might think, sciencefiction never waits for tomorrow. It's here already. In a Great City of the World Union, the TV show Nexxt, - like Nexxtasy, the name of a game played on the programme -, has usurped all sport matches. Frau Plastic Chicken is a beautiful and devilish compère. Anything goes and everyone plays with fire. Sometimes the guests have blood on their hands.
On this particular evening, the programme is even more exciting tahn usual: a psychopathic murderer on the run has just been caught and brought into the TV studio to be confronted with an ex-criminal, who begins to revert to his psychological type…
The performance takes the show to new nightmarish levels. A huge screen, live music, an electronic version of the devil: actors perform in the context of invasive and threatening technology. The staging explodes the boundaries of humour and horror. Nexxt deals with manipulation and violence.
NEXXT, the Film
A feature was made by the same artistic team from June - December 2000. The film was presented as part of the Hungarian Films Festival in February 2001. Because of violent reactions from professionals and audiences, the film-maker Árpád Schilling decided to remake the film, which was produced in two versions in October 2001 in Budapest.
See the website for more information about the show (in Hungarian)
On this particular evening, the programme is even more exciting tahn usual: a psychopathic murderer on the run has just been caught and brought into the TV studio to be confronted with an ex-criminal, who begins to revert to his psychological type…
The performance takes the show to new nightmarish levels. A huge screen, live music, an electronic version of the devil: actors perform in the context of invasive and threatening technology. The staging explodes the boundaries of humour and horror. Nexxt deals with manipulation and violence.
NEXXT, the Film
A feature was made by the same artistic team from June - December 2000. The film was presented as part of the Hungarian Films Festival in February 2001. Because of violent reactions from professionals and audiences, the film-maker Árpád Schilling decided to remake the film, which was produced in two versions in October 2001 in Budapest.
See the website for more information about the show (in Hungarian)
