HUNGER

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