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HUNGER
- Director: Data Tavadze
- Theatre:Royal District Theatre
- Hosting Theatre :Royal District Theatre
- Date:
- 28 September - 20:00 hr,
- 29 September - 20:00 hr,
Author: Data Tavadze
Director: Data Tavadze
Scenography by: Ketevan Nadibaidzee
Costumes Designer: Ketevan Nadibaidze
Composer: Nika Pasuri
Graphic Designer: Iva Kimeridze
Assistant to the director: Maya Sakhltkhutsishvili,
Natia Shalikashvili
Cast:
Paata Inauri, Kato Kalatozishvili
Magda Lebanidze
Sandro Samkharadze
Giorgi Sharvashidze
Keta Shatirishvili
Iako Chilaia
Duration: 2:20 / no intermission
On tour – 17 persons.
Genre - Drama
"This whole city is one big catalogue of advertising announcements, one big menu, which is
very difficult for me to bear, especially on an empty stomach."
When the political system is corrupt, can anyone be entirely innocent?
“Director Data Tavadze makes a brilliant return to his home space after five years of
directing abroad. His latest production delves into the harrowing narrative of individuals left
to fend for themselves within the unforgiving criminal system."
Review
If someone wants to understand how Georgian theater has transformed since the restoration of Georgia's
independence to the present day, how it overcame the syndrome of Soviet and Post-Soviet culture, one should
see and study director Data Tavadze's play "Hunger".
The birth of new artistic thinking, aesthetics was not an easy process, it took decades, and today, with an
example of this performance, we can say that the Georgian stage finally got rid of the pathetic tone created to
cover unconscious fears, mannerism, the habit of constantly wrapping the main idea in metaphors and began to
express itself directly - with open text, unvarnished directness and provocative honesty.
Together with associates, Data Tavadze creates a post-dramatic play about a humanitarian disaster, the feeling
of real hunger, a hungry person and the system surrounding him. With Knut Hamsun's motifs in the intertext,
fragmented and infinite contexts, a very poetic, glittering, intimate action is played out. Acute economic, social
and political problems depicted with such sophisticated aesthetics have the effect of surprise and the feeling of
finding something new. The play simultaneously presents us with an absurd consciousness, returns to the epic
theater and at the same time creates a new singular state, where time and space are curved before our eyes and
heralds awakening in a new dimension.
David Bukhrikidze, Art Critic
Royal District Theatre was one of the first independent theatres in Georgia. Since its
establishment in 1997, it has supported alternative performative experiments and the
popularization of new plays, thus widening the perspective of the Georgian theatre language.
Since 2008 a young group curated by director Data Tavadze and playwright Davit Gabunia
has been active at RDT and made the theatre popular abroad with its innovative forms and
acutely up-to-date performances. The international touring map of RDT includes multiple
festivals in Europe and beyond.
RDT founded the festival for contemporary drama RDfest to discover new names and
encourage alternative processes. The directors, playwrights, actors, composers, and designers
found at RDfest are ultimately defining the face of new Georgian theatre nowadays.
RDT is also active in the educational field, hosting the Centre for Development of
Contemporary Theatre and offering emerging directors and playwrights a residency to
encourage their practice. The Centre has hosted numerous seminars, workshops and
masterclasses and founded the first publishing house for theatre literature in Georgia.
"Radical and innovative", RDT has always considered social values and current political
events in their repertoire choices, encouraging debate and creating a space for reflection,
reaction, dialogue, and analysis.
Contact Person:
David Gabunia
Cell: +995 595424261
E-mail: dgabunia@yahoo.com
www.rdt.ge