GABRIELLA VARGA GOT THE AWARD OF LAJOS ŐZE!
After our performance of The Penelopiad on 9th May in METTRIN Centre of Arts, Tibor Elek the director of Gyula Castle Theatre gave ceremoniously the Award of Lajos Őze to Gabriella Varga, which the Art and Social Advisory Board of Gyula Castle Thearte has awarded to her because of “the intense and authentic portrayal of Penelope” in 2024. The members of the board reward outstanding acting of the performances which are shown during the Cross –National Cultural Festival from year to year by the Award of Lajos Őze. The award itself was founded by the Gyula Castle Thearte
The festival favourite production was made in Hungarian – Macedonian – Polish cooperation in May, 2004. This performance shows us Odysseus’ experienced and skilful wife’s archaic history, from that unique point of view which we have got used to by the director, Zoltán Balázs. The story, which is strongly divided from the point of view of women, interprets and shows differently the heroic father’s and rebellious boy’s actions, and the twelve housemaids’ mysterious death who they hanged up. The sensitive staging, like mostly mentioned waves of the sea, brings us to a journey on the back of turbulent emotions and fuming anger into the moral storm of a heroic story which is hardened by murders. The scenery, which is shining in gold-silver-bronze, can become a dreamy vision again with the help of those multidisciplinary, visual and acoustic tools which are typical for Maladype Theatre.
Gabriella Varga was born in Szentes, than she graduated in Budapest, she has worked together with the group of Maladype and with Zoltán Balázs. In 2003 she had an overwhelming success in the legendary performance based on Sándor Weöres’ Theomachia, she was Gaia the Goddess of the Earth. After it the audience could see her in the role of Diuf in The Blacks (2004), in the role of Melisande in Pelléas and Mélisande (2005) and in the role of Rhea in Empedocles (2005). Then seven years later she played princess Eboli in Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller in the Base of Maladype, and then she was Margaret of Parma in Egmont by Johann W. von Goethe.
In season 2025/26 in Hungary, we could see first on stage Margaret Atwood’s novel with Gabriella Varga (Penelope), Nelli Orbán (Helene) and Edina Bajkó’s (Melantho) passionate acting in METTRIN Centre of Arts.
Congratulations to Gabriella Varga!
10. 05. 2025.
The festival favourite production was made in Hungarian – Macedonian – Polish cooperation in May, 2004. This performance shows us Odysseus’ experienced and skilful wife’s archaic history, from that unique point of view which we have got used to by the director, Zoltán Balázs. The story, which is strongly divided from the point of view of women, interprets and shows differently the heroic father’s and rebellious boy’s actions, and the twelve housemaids’ mysterious death who they hanged up. The sensitive staging, like mostly mentioned waves of the sea, brings us to a journey on the back of turbulent emotions and fuming anger into the moral storm of a heroic story which is hardened by murders. The scenery, which is shining in gold-silver-bronze, can become a dreamy vision again with the help of those multidisciplinary, visual and acoustic tools which are typical for Maladype Theatre.
Gabriella Varga was born in Szentes, than she graduated in Budapest, she has worked together with the group of Maladype and with Zoltán Balázs. In 2003 she had an overwhelming success in the legendary performance based on Sándor Weöres’ Theomachia, she was Gaia the Goddess of the Earth. After it the audience could see her in the role of Diuf in The Blacks (2004), in the role of Melisande in Pelléas and Mélisande (2005) and in the role of Rhea in Empedocles (2005). Then seven years later she played princess Eboli in Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller in the Base of Maladype, and then she was Margaret of Parma in Egmont by Johann W. von Goethe.
In season 2025/26 in Hungary, we could see first on stage Margaret Atwood’s novel with Gabriella Varga (Penelope), Nelli Orbán (Helene) and Edina Bajkó’s (Melantho) passionate acting in METTRIN Centre of Arts.
Congratulations to Gabriella Varga!
10. 05. 2025.