György Spiró

Bump

Play

Bump, this bitter comedy is a real "Zeitstück". The starting point of each of its events is familiar to us from our everyday lives, only - true to the nature of comedy - everything is let loose, everything gets enlarged and becomes almost irrational; however, even in the craziest moments it is perfectly obvious for our daily experience. At a busy point of the city, one car bumps into the other. This simple event starts a chain reaction, kilometres long lines of cars bump into each other and traffic paralyzes for a whole day. Spiró gathers many different people in a place they cannot leave. Thus he uses an almost scientific method to create an experimental situation to observe logical reactions and processes. Drivers get out of their cars and make contacts with each other, and local residents naturally join the action. More and more characters and groups get there by accident, entering the situation; and this process turns more and more absurd as the play progresses. The number of characters increases to a distresing and ridiculous extent, which also means an increase of archetypes, life strategies, methods of success and forms of behaviour - a whole enyclopedia of contemporary Hungarian life is opened up before us. In comedies we perceive everything with the dual experience of familiarity and desperate ridiculousness. The image presented by comedy is endlessly funny and disgusting at the same time. György Spiró revives the most essential traditions of the genre by transforming ouir lives' facts onto the stage.

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• Prosaic theatre
• Theatre