The Begonias are Ablaze
11th October, 2019
7.00 pm
Kugler Art Salon
- Performed by:
- Dóra Sztarenki
- Music:
- Albert Márkos
- Costumes:
- Juli Szlávik
- Edited and directed by:
- Réka Ágnes Tóth
- Sponsors:
- An event jointly organized with KuglerArt Szalon.
Ticket prices: 3000 Ft
The Begonias are Ablaze
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“I have smashed my toys. My armour is a fool’s cap. I am a woman – not a writer. A woman. Sentient and childless. Not sterile, just childless. A woman with too strong a sense of responsibility, and too much cowardice, to create a new human life. I have remained my only child. An ageless, somewhat aimless child, impossible to raise. I hope I won’t live to be an old woman.” (Berta Boncza)
Csinszka (Berta Boncza) wrote her letters from a Swiss school for girls – to Endre Ady. She sent him poems to evaluate, hesitantly, not trusting to receive a reply, but the “rockets of her noble game of nerves” fascinated the poet. She wrote, drew, took photographs. This production selects from the letters, journal entries, and poems Csinszka wrote before and during their marriage, to show the woman who could never come into her own beside the genius poet of her time.