A homokszörny
The Sand Monster

Summary/Abstract: Csaba Székely burst into the Hungarian theatrical world a few years ago with his Mine-trilogy about the Transylvanian environment and his plays have been translated into several languages since then. His drama published in this issue, The Sand Monster (A homokszörny) steps away from the themes imposed by the environment and explores relationships between lovers, spouses, sex-partners. The order of scenes seems to follow the dramaturgy of an endless cyclic movement. Pairs of women with names of fruits and men with names of colours appear in dramatic moments that are sometimes spectacular, at other times hidden and defying silence. Whether relationships are dominated by emotion, carnality or social conditions, the feminine and masculine roles unite and separate as in a dance. The very same dance carries the sadness of relationship-paradoxes, while the carefully balanced playfulness and irony of the text keeps a distance from the characters, actually watching human nature from that distance.

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