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ENIKŐ SEPSI 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 "dramaworker,” 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). s 314 ¢ Daréczi-Sepsi-Vassänyi_Initiation_155x240.indb 314 6 2020.06.15. 11:04:26
