Péter Cseke directs the musical entitled The Sky Holds the Earth – Elizabeth, the Saint of the Earth, written by the author trio Zsuffa Tünde–Sándor Lezsák–Róbert Szikora, which can be seen for the first time on April 8 and 9 at the Erkel Theater in Budapest.
Péter Cseke, Kossuth Prize-winning actor and director of the Kecskemét National Theatre, began the first public reading test with the following:
"The blessing of God surrounds this enterprise" , the joint work that started last spring.
In an interview with Vasárnap, he said: "I feel and sensed that we worked in such harmony not by chance. Obviously, this is also the theme, since we are talking about such a saint, we thought about such a saint, we want to focus on such a saint with our presentation, who was a defining "phenomenon", a star of Hungary 800 years ago. I believe that there are still many saints today. In this pandemic situation, I see especially many saints who are self-sacrificing, perhaps even sacrificing their own lives, in order to help others. This example is presented to us by St. Elizabeth, who smuggled food to the poor from her very young childhood."
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How can a small child, and a princess, get there that helping the poor will be her main concern? And she can live the same way when she is a grown-up girl, when she is a wife, when she becomes a mother and when she becomes a widow. It retains this wonderful interior:
I surrender myself and try to do and live for others.
I am very happy that we managed to select Hungary's best actors and actresses for this play.
Sándor Lezsák, Tünde Zsuffa, Róbert Szikora at the press conference/Source: vasarnap.hu/Krisztián Szennyes
To the question: how much can you add to success if the team is looking in the same direction, working with the same love on the common cause? - he replied: "This is a very big thing, especially if it starts like this in the first place." My experience is that even if at first the oar pulls away from a boat in different directions, after a while it will still pull in the same direction. However, we were pulling in the same direction from the beginning, we had the same idea.
We strived for greatness, and I don't think it's worth dealing with art without striving for greatness. It is only worth reaching for the highest and seeing that goal in front of us.”
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