Ödön von Horváth
Kasimir and Karoline
a folk play
Hungarian translation by József Gáli
Opened: 4 February 2005

The characters of Kasimir and Karoline are drifted about in the dazed and colourful crowd of a folk's feast, driven by their worry for their everyday bread and by the desire for a better life. They try to comply with the social expectations of a compulsory "having fun" and in the meantime they slowly get ruined. Failure adds up from small bits of nothings: prejudices, reactions out of spite, senselessly copies norms of behaviour, which, however hypocritical, seem to start a life of their own and influence the characters consciousness, changing people into marionettes.