Balázs Zoltán
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ZOLTÁN BALÁZS IS STAGING THE SUIT!
The METTRIN Arts Centre performs on 26th June, Can Themba’s classic The Suit, directed by Zoltán Balázs. Adrián Kovács is the composer of the Hungarian premiere. The new musical work, which blends elements of jatt with classical opera traditions and is based on adaptation (Mothobi Mutloatse) and libretto (Balázs Zoltán) of a short story by one of world literature’s best-known South African authors, is a collaboration between the METTRIN and Maladype and will serve as the opening performance of the Louis Armstrong International Jazz Festival. Following its premiere in Bánk at the end of June, this multidisciplinary production will also be presented in Gyula at the World Literature Classics Festival and in Budapest as part of the Városmajor Open-air Theatre, Szemle Plusz competition program.
„Zoltán Balázs's performances are consequently on the fringe of irreality. Je ne sai quoi is a French indefinite. Izé would be the Hungarian equivalent. Balázs's performances are a search for the izé. And it is there in them. In Spanish it is called a duende, because a demon is at work in it.”