THE CHALK CIRCLE

"Help the person in need, you who need help"

Based on Bertolt Brecht's drama The Caucasian Chalk Circle, this classroom play explores the identity-forming power of helping and the responsibility of choice.

Gruse is a simple kitchen maid. She is given a child, the child of the governess, whom the rebels are looking for. She puts it down. Then she picks it up and runs - for a child that is not hers. Gruse goes through the emotional and physical journey of adoption. Her path is the path the path risks and responsibilities taken for the sake of good. It is a coming of age. The millennial story of the chalk circle presented with epic dialectic and ragged Georgian folk music, set to four actors and classrooms.

Actors:
Blanka Mészáros
Eszter Bánfalvi
István Ficza
Kristóf Feczesin

Music: Petra Szászi
Tutor: Máté Szilvay
Stage design: Nóra Vermes
Dramaturgy: Petra Alfarman
Assistant: Lilla Borhi
Directed by Orsolya Fodor

After festivals and guest performances, the production found a home in Örkény István Theatre’s ÖrkényKöz Stage.

Extract from the performance

Press coverage:
Mezei néző: “A színház diadala, avagy az egész kaukázus egy tantermben
Interjú: „Brecht azóta van bennem, mióta először felvételiztem rendező szakra”