Varjú Karcsi
Charlie Crow

Summary/Abstract: Johanna Bertóti’s theatre play for children, interspersed with poetry and musical moments, invites readers to a music school populated by songbirds, and not only. This space is an imaginary and playful one, but the problems, questions, and doubts of the character are not different from those which children of all times have shared, as the space of the school evokes the pedagogical environment that is familiar for many of us, somewhat inflexible, authoritarian, and failing to pay proper attention to the pupils.Nevertheless, Bertóti’s text does not have a rigidly critical character, but instead selects dysfunctional aspects from the relationships between parents and children, pupils and children, and between the pupils themselves. The main character, Varjú Karcsi (“Charlie Crow”), enrolled in the Schuhubert Music School in the hope of a career as a singer, which is also nurtured by his parents, is finally expelled due to a prank, but meanwhile we also witness the forging of an authentic friendship between children. The play was staged as a theatrical pedagogy production by the independent theatre company of the Waiting Room Project and premiered under the direction of Andrej Visky, on September 10, 2020, in the independent cultural space ZUG from Kolozsvár/Cluj, after which it will be performed in schools.

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