Bodó/Vinnai/Turai/Róbert: THE DICE MAN

Staging of the eponymous cult novel by Luke Rhinehardt, The dice man portrays the acknowledged psychiatrist who, having turned thirty, one day realizes that he has fallen into the captivity of quotidian routine and has been swept away by mechanical routines of his roles. Luke decides to break away from his mundane life and to leave his fortune to dice. As a result of this decision, his life and the lives of his closest family and friends start falling part. Trying to avoid the responsibilities of his everyday personal and professional life, his life turns into a schizophrenic surreal labyrinth without easy way out. The performance shuns from the realistic framework, while establishing diverse perspectives of relationship between the inner life and the external events, questioning the necessity of all social taboos. This masterful post-modern theatre, with elements from cabaret and fantastic actors' transformations, carries the recognizable poetics of the Hungarian director of younger generation Viktor Bodo. Bodo has already presented himself to the audience in Rijeka in 2007 with his performance Rattledanddisapeared.
From the programme booklet

Bodo and his crew are not breaking any new ground: what we get here is a consistently top-notch, post-modernist cabaret show. They spek the age–old idiom of entertainment and comedy fluently. is is only the jokes that are even more irrational and mind-boggling this time arround, save for when they are so outright obtuse, it is a joke in itself. (...) No sets are used for a few chairs – it is solely Andrea Kovacs's costumes that help conjure up the manifold illusions and marvels. Effective theatre does not need more that this. The cast, while scrapping, or rather, dissecting all the conventional devise adn worn-away truths, harvest the devilish glee of childlike appetite for fun and games.
Laszlo Zappe, nol. hu