or else misteries of Bread
How long does it lake te walk round the world – we are asking the hungarians living in Moldavia, ozut of the Carpathians Valley who keep their old customs, songs and dances.
The answer is – in 24 hours if you follow the Sun.
And to announce the year's beginning, they Say Hey, the great blessing, waking the souls' doves by using their bullwhips.
'Saying Hey' is a large-scale street-theatre performance, a vision of wheat's mystery, a venture into mythical time, a conjuring up of the year's folklore festivities.
At the beginning of the new millennium maybe the frontiers of our more and more difficult existence wil enlarge. That’ s why big blessing and desire for good fate is necessary. The performance is based on New Years’s customs of the Carpathians Valley – the seven mysteries of bread, initiation of a man…That is what this return to the past offers.
The company wishes to represent a unique image and character at the open-air festivals of the EU member states by realising a ceremony theatre, that is, performances without traditional acting roles. This special form of theatre wants to live on. The play has proved its viability in Hungary and abroad as well, it met with success in Karlsruhe and in Banská Bystrica in 2002, and at the Feast of Crafts and in Esztergom in 2003
Created and played by:
Zsolt Szász, Márta Tömöry, András Kozma, Károly Bálint, Zsolt Vaskó, Lilla Feherváry, Kata Simándi, Richard Bassola, Attila Medvecz, József Magyar (Szilárd Boráros, Milada Skvorilvá, and Norbert Néder took an active part in design and performing!)
- Director: Zsolt Szász
- Design: Szilárd Boráros, Norbert Néder, Zsolt Szász
- Dramaturg: Márta Tömöry
- Music compositor: Zsolt Vaskó
- Duration: 65 minute
- Players and musicians: 9 person
- Technical needs: 15x15 m dance ring, 3 microphone, 2 microport
- Setting up and dismonting: 40 minutes
- Transporting: 1 microbus and trailer
- Musicians: Birdsong group.
