Viktor Bodó was born in 1978 in Budapest where he completed his schooling by simultaneously building a career in theatre and in film, thus becoming successful both as actor and director. His production of Rattledanddisappeared is one of the most intriguing theatrical achievements that can presently be viewed on European stages. Brilliant and inspiring critiques of the show come from a variety of European countries in which the play had been performed, from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, to France, Finland and Ireland. Thus, for instance, the distinguished Bulgarian playwright and director Hristo Bojcev, after having seen Rattledanddisappeared at the Sarajevo Theatre Festival (MESS) where it won three prizes, stated: "If I manage to drag myself back home now, I’ll destroy every play I have ever written." The show Rattledanddisappeared is a production of Katona József Színház, the most famous Hungarian institutional theatre that has been working independently since 1982, when it separated from the Budapest National Theatre. With its innovative and challenging shows, the Katona Theatre had performed in some sixty cities all over the world.

"Jozef K. has been arrested. At first he believes that the things happening to him are a result of some uncouth joke his friends have invented in honour of his birthday, but later he understands that nothing is the way it seems. From that moment his story bears no dramaturgical turning points whatsoever. The tribunal of existence, the women who wish to help him, and his personal obsessions, drag him into a battle he cannot win since he never finds out who it is he should fight against or what it is he should fight for." Although Rattledanddisappeared basically follows the plot of Kafka’s famous novel The Trial (published in 1925), what we see on stage is by no means a classical dramatised adaptation of the work. In order to approach contemporary audiences, with the idea of opening possibilities for creating an explosive mixture of first-class acting, physical theatre, cabaret, and dance, András Vinnai and Viktor Bodó have injected a number of novelties into Kafka’s story. ... Rattledanddisappeared therefore turns into a soul grinding theatre machine; it becomes the embodiment of a merciless mechanism of our civilisation that in a hallucinatory atmosphere of a lively nightmare brutally sucks Jozef K. into its mysterious gorge.

The hero of Franz Kafka's disturbingly absurd novel The Trial..., has now become a bewildered star of the stage. Rattledanddisappeared is a faithful adaptation of the book..., faithful insofar as it too is an alternatively exhilarating and stultifying experience, augmented with an abundance of show tunes and Bob Fosse-style choreography. Limiting the playing space to an impossibly narrow and endlessly deep corridor, the production swirls with claustrophobia, paranoia and mania.(...) „Procedures are under way," Tamás Keresztes's Josef is instructed early on, having already lost the shirt off his back, „you will learn everything." For both hero and audience, of course, this is a barefaced lie.(...) Bodó's adaptation... does not, then, represent a subversive stab at the ideological constraints of Hungary's communist past, but rather spins into a delighted anarchy where theatre itself seems to be on the brink of collapse.(...) A deliriously entertaining curtain call goes some way to letting us part on good terms, but when the shadowy powers-to-be finally emerge from all the pandemonium, commanding „all citizens have to calm down", a totalitarian nightmare has never sounded so reasonable.
Peter Crawley, The Irish Times