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in theatre history, and it appears in several of Novarinas productions. Among
the ones performed in Hungary, the Imaginary Operette can be mentioned
as an example, in which the child of a small family living in a box-house is
making his puppets head peek out of the wall of his cardboard home.
2. József Jámbor, Kinga Újhelyi and Artúr Vranyecz in Inaginary Operette
(Opérette imaginaire) at the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen, 2009, directed
by Valére Novarina, translated by Zsófia Rideg (photo credit: András Máthé)
Mészáross work is helped by stage assistant Sándor Horváth, or "drama¬
worker,” to use Novarina’s terminology. As if the performance were
a rehearsal, at the right moment, Horvath brings in a sheep or a folding screen
as if this were a perfectly natural part of the course of events. The folding
screen covered with translucent, off-white paper is the main instrument to
prompt the obscuring of the actor’s person, his becoming translucent, and
his “imaginary” breakthrough (literally, the actor breaks through the folding
screen and becomed a galanty show, or pantomime shadow play).
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