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Disgrace describes the decline of David Lurie, a white professor at Cape Town University. Sacked for sexual harassment, he joins his daughter Lucy on a farm in the South African hinterland. But his new haven of peace turns to hell when both of them are badly beaten up by black neighbours. Lucy is raped, falls pregnant, and the former professor sees his points of reference disappear... Hungarian director and producer Kornél Mundruczó is now transposing this post-apartheid novel by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee to his merciless reality theatre. He sees in it the parable of the fears of a Europe - and particularly Hungary - confronted with radical change. For David's decline could also be that of the world where the "white man", after dominating the other for centuries, in turn sees himself being colonised. After The Frankenstein-project and Hard To Be A God, two works that shook the festival, Mundruczó produces a new vitriolic lampooning of hatred and exclusion.
Concept & direction
Kornél Mundruczó
János Szemenyei
Viktória Petrányi
Artistic collaboration
Yvette Bíró
Set & costumes
Márton Ágh
Production manager
Dóra Büki
Production assistant
Zsófia Csató
Technical direction & light
András Éltető
Performed by
Annamária Láng, Lili Monori, Kata Wéber, Gergely Bánki, János Derzsi, László Katona, Roland Rába, János Szemenyei, B. Miklós Székely, Sándor Zsótér.
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Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Wiener Festwochen, Proton Cinema + Theatre (Budapest), Festival d'Avignon, Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest), Malta Festival (Poznań), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Romaeuropa Festival 2012
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© J.M. Coetzee, 1999
Staying or going, humiliation and independence
Kornél Mundruczó talks to Matthias Pees about Disgrace
Matthias Pees: After working on Coetzee's novel for such a long time, what do you feel lies at its heart?
Kornél Mundruczó: Increasingly I've mainly had the feeling that it's a novel about us. About us Europeans, us Hungarians. That's actually what I've been afraid of for six years since reading it for the first time. Anyhow it was great being able to work with a novel again. The last time I did that was with Vladimir Sorokin's Ljod (Ice) where my world and the novel's meet in this way. Coetzee was just as big a discovery for me because I got a lot out of the novel without having to give anything of myself up. That was confirmation for me that you're allowed to handle contradictions, that these contradictions are the very meaning itself. Because Disgrace isn't a story, it's not the plot that's interesting. And yet there are two important stories in the book: one is about a white man and his fall, the story of his path to disaster and the other is the story of the country's reordering. That's something we also have a good understanding of.
MP: Is it about a reversal of relationships in the balance of colonial power and ownership? Are we, the world's former colonial masters, now being colonised?
KM: Yes. I really like the fact that Coetzee never criticises European culture and society, but given his portrayals we can't help but admit that colonisation, therefore the exercise of power and exploitation, is ultimately the only thing – it appears to have been the only impulse – started by white people or that has remained.
MP: There are no black performers in your production of Disgrace, no performers made up as black either. What role does skin colour and racism play in this social and historical-cultural worldwide issue of possession and power?
KM: We live in a white country in the heart of Europe. Therefore my idea of South Africa is an absolutely imaginary world. All white nations and communities have their black people. And every black society has its whites. For me this is an absolutely abstract state of human existence, therefore in the end a question of people's power over people, and what kind of animal man himself is. Ultimately my production is precisely about this animalistic consequence of racism.
MP: Your theatre work radically explores the question of the conditio humana and at the same time questions the state of our humanism. How does that fit with our entitlement to a dignified life, with human dignity in reality? Is theatre a catalyst for enduring extreme degradation and humiliation because an actor can also stand up after the most awful scenes and situations, look the audience in the eye and sing a song?
KM: For me it's about revealing the intellectual and showing the naked mind. For this I need gestures which may be near the knuckle and not usual in theatre, even unbearable to some. A different activity and collectivity. So that theatre isn't just a place for thinking, but for actual experience, a real experience. It only comes from people's existence. Deep down all my theatre work is romantic too. Not in the sentimental sense, but in the sense that everything comes out of wounding, out of pain.
We have plenty of experience of humiliation. I think the only way to maintain dignity is by being independent. When independence is taken away, it's hard to maintain your dignity and be a free person. That's why this theatre group works so well. It's not me, it's the group that manages to keep its independence, despites huge difficulties. They're all independent people, although half of them don't have any work at the moment. The performance is about everyone being free. In the final scene, the dogs are sold to the audience. They're told that every dog comes from a different Hungarian town – the towns where the actors were born.
MP: Is the reason for the extreme political and social situation in Hungary, the majority of its laws and extreme laws, also a cry for independence, for wanting to be different even in a repulsive sense?
KM: Every humiliation gives rise to extremism. The Germans learned this in the 20th century from experience. Hungary has frequently been humiliated during its history as well. I think people in Hungary can really identify with the character of Lucy. Initially I found her decision not to report her rapists, not to terminate her pregnancy and not to leave the place of the crime, her country, but to subordinate herself to the new circumstances completely absurd. But I don't any more. The question of staying or going is a very Hungarian issue for me. There's no rational explanation for staying, this decision comes from somewhere else completely. Generally people very rarely have answers, they simply can't come up with them. Lucy in herself is an answer.
I have the sense that I've never done such a Hungarian play, although my source material, in this case Coetzee's novel, has never been set so far from Hungary before. Initially it seemed very far away, utterly alien. Yet the more we worked with the text, the more surprised I was by how close its issues were to me. It's about us. It's much more Hungarian than Ice, Frankenstein-project or Hard To Be A God. There are huge shifts taking place on the political map at the moment and I'm eager to see how topical the issue of reordering will be.
Disgrace is a novel by Cape Town-born author J. M. Coetzee which was published in 1999. Set in South Africa after the end of apartheid, a white university professor, David Lurie, loses his job after having an affair with one of his students and travels to stay with his lesbian daughter Lucy on a small farm in the country. Shortly afterwards, however, Lucy is raped by some black men and made pregnant, without David being able to help her. Although the culprits are not prosecuted and Lucy's safety cannot be guaranteed, against her father's wishes she decides not to leave her house or the area. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. He left South Africa and now lives in Australia.
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Kornél Mundruczó was born in Hungary in 1975. He studied at the Hungarian University of Film and Drama and is now a renowned European film director whose films premiere at the most prestigious festivals all over the world. He directed his short film AFTA shortly after leaving school. It went on to win numerous international awards. Pleasant Days , his first feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002 for the best first and second feature. He took part in the Cannes Residence programme in 2003. His second feature film, Johanna – an operatic adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc – was presented at Un Certain Regard in 2005. His third feature film, Delta won the FIPRESCI Critics' Award in Cannes in 2008. His latest film, Tender Son , was in the Official Selection for Cannes 2010. He has also worked in theatre for some years now, including with the Krétakör Theatre, the National Theatre of Hungary, the Thalia Theater Hamburg and Schauspiel Hannover among others, but basically whenever he finds a topic, a group or a venue that inspires him. During the working process he tries to build up a team and often ends up inviting back some of the same actors so that they go on to become creative partners. He devises the productions with them. He is not an official member of any theatre and mostly works on commission.Back to top


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Episode III: The Fugitive
The trip south to Houston was uneventful ─ it must have been. I can't remember it. Think I got a ride to Waco…then to somewhere just north of Houston, and then into Houston proper. My sole purpose in coming to Houston was to obtain cheap or free accommodation and to minimize my food expenditure. The prospect for work was practically nil as the summer was too far advanced, but I'd decided to take anything on offer, provided it wasn't cleaning girders on a missile site.
Al Lawrence, true to his word, had a place for me to stay for the first week or two. The address was 8114 Glencrest. I'm not sure if this was the home of the Maxwells, a lovely family who befriended Al, Barrie Almond, and Pat Clohessy, and other needy Australians when required. If any "Summertime" subscribers can throw light on who the owners of 8114 Glencrest might have been, I'd be most grateful.
Another beneficiary of the free accommodation at 8114 was a recent arrival from Australia, Laurie Elliott, the brother of then Olympic 1500m Champion and world record holder for the mile, Herb Elliott. Our stay at the "Villa Capri" was all too short. After a period of two weeks, Al informed us that there was no longer room at the inn. I'm guessing, but if the home was the Maxwells', it could be that their son Bubba was coming home for the summer, which meant that the two recent additions to the household needed to move on.
Laurie was okay. He was starting a summer course at the University of Houston, so Johnny Morris, the track coach at the University of Houston, had arranged for him to stay in the one dormitory opened for summer students. The dorm was largely empty, as few students enrolled for summer school. Al lent me a rubber mattress and suggested that I ever-so-quietly slip unobserved into the dorm after dark to find an unoccupied room. As there were no mattresses on the unoccupied beds, it was thoughtful of Al to provide me with that essential piece of equipment. The rubber mattress, I know for a fact, came out of the Maxwells' motor launch.
I wasn't the only practitioner of this nightly escapade. Don Brown, known as "Brownie," a Canadian long jumper on the track team and a reprobate of huge proportion, was my co-invader. Like a pair of Ninja warriors, we would stealthily creep into the dorm through the main door, if unguarded, or through a window, when necessary, and look for an empty space. During the day I stored my mattress and meagre collection of belongings in Laurie's room.
All too soon, the word started to circulate that the dorm had an infestation of unwanted residents. The dorm supervisor and the university's security guard were told to be alert and on the lookout for two fugitives, one of whom had red hair. There is little prospect of my being identified these days in a line up, but in 1961 I had flaming red hair. Their first move was to lock the side entrances to the dorm. When the front entrance was guarded, which wasn't very often, Laurie left a window open for us. Then they decided to do a 'search and destroy' mission at night, but Brownie had connections, and we knew ahead of time when the search was to be conducted. We were even told when the search was over and it was safe to enter the dorm. That was the game we played for the remainder of the summer ─ an adult version of hide and seek. We somehow stayed out of reach of the posse and managed to enjoy the hospitality of the university.
Food was the other problem. And here again the brotherly love of our Aussie comrades came to the fore. Barrie Almond had some kind of supervisory role in the school cafeteria. Somehow, he managed to have me signed on as a member of the student body and given a job as a busboy for three hours a day at 60c an hour. Mind you, from rocket scientist to busboy in a period of a few weeks was a significant come-down, but at least I was earning $1.80 a day and could eat three good meals free of charge.
From a letter to Charlotte dated August 21, 1961, I see that I informed her of three notable events in the cafeteria. My job as a busboy was to push a cart around the cafeteria collecting the dirty dishes and trays. While performing my duties on one occasion, I approached the table where the supervisor of the dorm was eating. His single piece of information about me was my red hair, but with a crew cut and the cafeteria hat pulled down around my ears, I had no trouble collecting his dirty plates. Why, he even thanked me when I cleaned his ashtray. (Well, that's a bygone era: ashtrays in a school cafeteria.)
You may have observed that working in restaurants and cafeterias always includes an element of high drama. From the afore-mentioned well preserved document, dated August 21, 1961, here is my description, verbatim, and ungrammatical, of one such incident.
The cash register incident occurred one morning when the chef and number one cook turned up late. Everything was chaos, and before I knew it, I was operating the cash register. The only trouble, I didn't know the prices, and there were too many lines to remember all the prices; as a result, I had to do my own pricing at times. In order to keep harmony, I was taking 10c off the total each time, as I figured there would be less complaints for undercharging than overcharging the customers.
I was also given the responsibility for maintaining an adequate supply of milk in glasses. Any leftovers at the end of the meal time had to be disposed of down the drain ─ a cardinal sin, as far as management was concerned. With the double trauma of operating the cash register and keeping the glasses filled, I exceeded the milk demand and was faced with a serious oversupply. I drank six cups myself, persuaded Barrie and Al to imbibe, and finally, as cashier, I was offering two glasses for the price of one. To make the offer more attractive, I said, "Buy one glass, and get the second one free!" Marketing always was my best attribute.
1961 was the year that the University of Houston had a huge influx of Australian athletes, all long and middle distance runners. Johnny Morris must have been the most despised coach in America when he paraded his stable of Australian studs at various track meets and cross country events. I was there when one of these athletes, Bob Cousens from Victoria, arrived at the campus. When we were introduced, there in the company of the other Australian athletes, I said, "My goodness, Johnny Morris has recruited Boofhead!" Boofhead was a popular comic strip character in Australia at that time. As you can see from the image below, his most striking feature was his bushy crop of black hair, not that dissimilar from Bob's hair. From that day till this one, his athletic colleagues at U of H refer to him as "Boof" the shorter version of "Boofhead".
Bob wasn't all that fond of his new nickname ─ or of me, for that matter, for being the one to christen him. He should have known, though, that to object to being called "Boof" was a sure way of entrenching the practice. I have to say that the feeling was mutual. We openly displayed our dislike of one another. But one evening in a bar, probably our customary local waterhole, the Algerian, we were sitting together on two stools, all on our lonesome, just the two of us. We spoke openly about our dislike for each other, and having said all that was to be said, we decided to put aside our grievances and accept each other for who we were. That reconciliation has lasted to this day. When Boof, or I should say Bob, comes to Sydney, he never fails to contact me to get together for a meal or a beer. In fact, last year, 2009, when he was in Sydney competing for the USA team in the World Masters' Championships, he made the final in the 200m in the 70 – 75 year age group, and I went out to the Olympic stadium to see him run. He started well and was up with the leaders when they came off the bend into the straight, but then he seemed to be flagging and losing ground. I was quite close to the bend, so I started shouting, "Boof! Boof! Boof!" Those long-suppressed resentments started to erupt, and with a surge of adrenaline, he stormed past the opposition for a convincing win in 29 seconds. There is nothing like some good old homespun support to lift an athlete to victory.
Winning a World Masters' Championship gold medal wasn't Boof's only notable accomplishment at the games. Later that day he ran on a relay team, but what was most interesting was that he ran on the Australian team, not the US team. I think he created history. Who has ever heard of coming to a world championship event representing one country and running a relay for another? But did this behaviour astonish anyone? Those of us who know Bob just shrugged our shoulders and figured, "Well, that's Boof, and what else would you expect?" Yes, that's Boof, and God bless him. As far as I know, he is the last of our 1960's era jocks to have both the energy and the ability to drag himself up onto the victory rostrum.
It seems that every Australian athlete who arrived in Houston was given a nickname that has stuck with them all these years. "Digger" was the name given to Laurie Elliott. Laurie was tall, tan, good looking, and liked a few beers. I guess you'd say he was the epitome of what we imagine our Australian troops on Gallipoli in WWI to have been like. They and our WWII soldiers are known as "diggers."
Alan Irwin was the smallest in stature on the team, so he was anointed "the mouse." Even to this day when athletes of that era refer to "The Mouse" instead of calling him by his Christian or last name, there is instant recall. I'll leave it to you to guess how his teammates referred to the first girl Alan dated. I don't know if she is still called Minnie.
Perhaps Geoff Walker had the most poetic of labels. He was known as "the Dixie Lightfoot." Geoff was a very firm-footed runner, unlike some of us, who could possibly be better described as "twinkle toes," by comparison. When Geoff ran one of his first meets at the Mason-Dixon Indoor Track Meet, his remorseless pounding of the wooden track echoed around the stadium, earning him his nickname.
As for me, I was known as "Bluey," common slang for people with red hair in Australia. I suppose some would claim that calling red blue defines our contrary nature. Fortunately for me, the dorm supervisor was not familiar with Australian slang. If he had been, he might have taken my hat off, had a look, and apprehended one of the two fugitives. As the lowest of the low in the cafeteria, "Bluey" was often being summoned to do this or that.
Without money, the summer social life in Houston was quite sparse. There was the occasional beer drunk at the Algerian and the odd movie or two. Frugality was the order of the day (and night), and to conserve finances, Al Lawrence and I travelled halfway across town to a Mexican theatre, where the price of entrance was 40c. I think we were still overcharged. One film we saw, "Buffalo Gun," described as a "B" grade movie, was really a "B-double-minus"!
Occasionally, we would get to swim in the pool at Ollan Cassell's apartment. He and Cathy were now married with a baby boy. I will never forget Ollan holding his son over the first floor balcony above the pool a la Whacko Jackson.
I was once taken water skiing in the Maxwell's launch by Bubba Maxwell on Clear Lake (or was it Clear Creek?). Skiing close to the bank, I passed over a snake, a water moccasin, no doubt. Thanks to Mr Thompson's coaching the previous summer, I managed to stay upright as I bisected the snake with a ski each side of his head. Sad to say that, some years later, Bubba was killed when this same motor launch flipped over.
The social event of the summer was undoubtedly Barrie Almond's marriage to "Maid Marian." It was a gala affair at which the Australians almost outnumbered the US contingent.
If Barrie's wedding was the social event of the year, the highlight of my Houston summer sojourn was Hurricane Carla ─ one of the worst storms to hit Houston. The eye of the storm passed over the coast 100 miles west of the city. The date was early September, and I was planning to be back in Abilene by September 10th to register for classes. I had begun my return journey knowing that the hurricane was on its way. Endless updates were reporting on its progress and advising everyone to stock up on food and to fill their bathtubs with water.
Someone from the school had driven me to the outskirts of Houston, where I could more easily catch a ride back to Abilene. But I began to think about staying in Houston for one more day just to see what it was like to be in the middle of a hurricane. After all, I reasoned, I had already escaped unharmed from my missile site adventure and had just skied over a water moccasin without any ill effects, so a hurricane couldn't be all that bad.
When I arrived back in Houston, the usual suspects had taken note of the warnings and forecasts and filled the bathtub in one of their apartments…admittedly, it was filled with ice and beer rather than water. The idea, they said, was to have a "hurricane party." While the hurricane and the party were at their peak, several of us decided to have a training run in a nearby park. It was a large open space, treeless in the middle. Everywhere else, branches were being snapped off and trees were flying through the air, so the lack of trees was good. We thought it would be a good time to make an attempt on the world record for the 100m (aided by Carla, of course). I'm not sure about the velocity of the wind at the time we made the attempt, but a hand-held stop watch carried by one of the participants had several of us under eight seconds! It was quite exhilarating to almost literally fly over the course at a speed that, as far as we knew, no previous human being had ever attained. We figured not many athletes had ever attempted to break the 100m record in a hurricane, unless, of course, there was more than one hurricane party that day in Houston.
My planned 24 hour stay in Houston was extended to three days, but not because of the party, which sputtered out quite early. Carla, as I said, was one of the worst storms ever to hit Houston, and the devastation was extreme. Power lines and trees were down everywhere, and it was three days before the roads could be cleaned up enough for me to recommence my trek back to Abilene.
For the third time I was late back to ACC and missed the first two days of the new semester. Nice, though, to see Charlotte again.
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Par-City Celebrates The Release Of Their Mixtape, Civilized Sessions Vol. 2
On Wednesday, June 12, recording artists GiF and Willy Dope of Par-City teamed up with New Era and Cuba Beverages for the celebration of the group's new mixtape, Civilized Sessions Vol. 2. The event was held at the New Era Flagship store in SoHo, and was hosted by LowKey of YouHeardThatNew.com.
Special guests included Mills Miller, Jack Thriller (Thisis50), Panama, Skye, Baiyu, Dominican Drew (Hot 97), Blitz, Jakk Doe (JakkDoe.com), Mr. Ivory Snow, Brad Green, Shanelle Gabriel, DJ NOE, and more. Music was provided by Da Union's DJ O. Minaya and Sirius XM / Hot 97′s DJ Juanyto.
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Toba: The Toba Super-eruption. "The Toba super-volcano has erupted explosively a number of times over the past 1.2 million years. By far the largest and most destructive of these occurred around 74,000 years ago, and it is this 'Youngest Toba Tuff' or YTT eruption that forms the focus of this research project. At least 2800 cubic kilometres of volcanic material was ejected during this super-eruption, dwarfing historical eruptions such as Krakatoa and Pinatubo." Learn more.
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There is a fine line between celebrating diversity and exploiting it. When I first heard of "Girl Comics," I thought certainly Marvel was playing towards exploitation with a comic series exclusively created by women. Later I tried to be positive, thinking it would be a fabulous opportunity for Marvel to turn the spotlight to creators and characters who normally don't receive much glory. Colleen Coover's introduction was along the lines of what I was expecting after I mulled this concept over.
"Moritat," featuring Nightcrawler, was disappointing. While Ming Doyle's art is significantly different from most — and well-suited to a Nightcrawler story — her angle kept jumping around, complicating the story unnecessarily. Aside from the Germanic setting, I'm not sure why this story needed Nightcrawler and not any other cipher to fill the role reversal played out within. Another option G. Willow Wilson could have pursued would have been to make the Nightcrawler story actually an Amanda Sefton story.
Trina Robbins and Stephanie Buscema deliver a tale set in the 1960s that draws Venus (of "Agents of Atlas" fame) back to her "mortal" roots. Buscema's art is equal parts Lowell Hess, Trina Robbins, and Darwyn Cooke. The exuberant colors for this story really help bring it home as a period piece.
Valerie D'Orazio and Nikki Cook deliver a Punisher tale that shows how Frank Castle deals with pedophiles without showing anything. Lucy Knisley's two-page Doc Ock story is offbeat enough to be cute.
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The final story in the issue is an investigation into the relationship between Scott Summers and Jean Gray that could only make sense once you reach the end. Devin Grayson and Emma Rios tell a story that feels like it contributes to the Marvel Universe beyond this issue.
What would an all-female book be without a little bit of cheesecake? Marvel couldn't avoid having a pinup in here, so they dropped in a She-Hulk drawing by Sana Takeda that gives a wink and a nod to the "She-Hulk" series popularized by John Byrne.
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