Martin Crimp: A többit láttad már a moziban
Martin Crimp: The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema

Summary/Abstract: Martin Crimp's drama The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema is featured in our Autumn issue in a recent translation by Bálint Botos. The young Transylvanian director staged the text himself in 2020 at the Tamási Áron Theatre in Sfântu Gheorghe. Crimp, recognised as a pioneering playwright of contemporary British theatre, rewrites in this text one of Euripides' lesser-known plays, The Phœnician Women. Although Euripides' drama is outshadowed by other adaptations, the mythological story behind it, viewed and reworked from different perspectives by the triad of ancient Greek tragedians is known to us all: as Eteocles and Polyneices are pitted against each other at the gates of Thebes, individual and communal transgressions intertwine inextricably, thus tragic events and their recurring spillover seem unstoppable. Crimp's drama interrogates the dialectic of these very issues. Treating the choir as the protagonist, it explores what we have learned from one of the oldest stories about crime, responsibility and violence.

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