LÉT(ra)
Credits
- Company
- Csokonai National Theatre Debrecen
- Year
- 2025
- Duration
- 80 min
- Premiere
- Csokonai National Theatre Debrecen, Hungary
- Direction / Choreography
- Gábor Katona
- Edit Domoszlai
- Set Design
- Péter Ondraschek
- Costume Design
- Dóra Hegedűs
- Music
- Péter Zombola
- Noé Barcza
- Dramaturg
- Beáta Adorján
- Assistant Director
- Zsuzsanna Laczó
- Cast
- Chiara Cascino, Zsolt Csata, Vivien Edelényi, Imelda Hajdu, Julianna Horváth, Fernando Gabriel Luis, János Mercs, Rut Nache López, Bence Pálóczi, Matthew Joseph Retcho, Elise Paris Turco, Bendegúz Varga, Klári Varga, Lina Lolita Verveckken, Valerio Zaffalon
About the work
LÉT(ra) was created together with director-choreographer Gábor Katona as an experiment in bringing two different theatrical languages into the same space: contemporary dance and spoken theatre.
The work grew from Linn Skåber's texts — intimate monologues that move through different stages of growing up and the often unresolved experience of becoming an adult.
Rather than illustrating these stories through movement, we used the words as points of departure.
Eight dancers and seven actors shared the stage, gradually developing a common performative language.
A fragmented, mosaic-like dramaturgy allowed spoken text and movement to shift constantly in relation to one another: sometimes supporting each other, sometimes opening a different associative layer.
The title plays with the Hungarian words "lét" — 'existence' — and "létra" — 'ladder'. The ladder also became a physical and metaphorical structure within the work: something we construct, climb, dismantle and continuously reposition as we move through different stages of life.