Gábor Schneider

Crazy Helga - with the face of Janus

The Crazy Helga of László Darvasi is not simply the story of a murder and an investigation without end, although the starting point of the performance is a bloody murder which has already happenned, the baffling death and mystery of a whole family, the secret's finding out and understanding stands in the centre of the perfromance. The reconstruction of the events and the newer and newer turns produce tension, but the performance does not uncover the mystery, at the end the audience get no apt punch line. The performance gives no answers, it leaves questions.
The Crazy Helga deals with etical problems, and metaphisical things, but János Mikuli did not put the stress on the ideological questions, when he directed the performance with the team of the Janus University Theather. The story of the beast of Müttenheim is by itself strong and interesting, so the director tried to take the advantages of the plot of the text, and let the audience think about the unclear limits of innocence, honesty and compromice.
Himmel (this name speaks, just as the others, the delegate of the sky, heaven), who is under the suspicion of the murder, appears as the greak gods in the performance. The actor who creates the mystic stranger, Csaba Horváth plays his role with calm inviolableness from first to last. Tünde Gelencsér is droller, sillier in the role of Helga. The two casts give an opportunity to show the alternatives of the crazy girl's character. Timea Szabados uses less childish smile, her act is not so energetic, but maybe more dialectic. At the end of the performance it becomes clear, that the finding out of the secret is realy important for only one person, the alarmed dismay of the mayor, András Ernő Tóth, holds on to the last scene.
This is the second time, that the Janus University Theather chooses the works of Darvasi, some years ago, they played the Investigation in the case of the roses in the Third Theather of Pécs. "It is important, the sentences must have glance."-said in one of his interviews Darvasi. The university theather undertook -for the happiness of the audience- to give glance to this hungarian drama, that is so rare. A glance, with the face of Janus.