Mintapinty (Winging It)

Erzsébet Molnár, later Mrs Sándor Márkus (born in the 1940s; a thin, fair-skinned woman whose life has taken her from working-class Erzsébet home to the wife of a rural Communist Party secretary, then to retirement as a museum director, and finally to becoming a grandmother), watches her entire life flash before her eyes. As old wounds and long-buried grievances resurface, she revisits her past from birth, through the political transition following the fall of communism, to the present day.

With sharp wit and disarming self-irony, this remarkable survivor holds up a mirror to the people around her—her family, the social types she has encountered, and the joyful as well as painful situations that have shaped her life. Her story feels strikingly familiar, leaving us with the sense that it could just as easily have been our own.

"A memorial speech?
A speech of remembrance.
I remember the countless lies."

“In Mintapinty, we do not portray Zsóka's authentic life story; rather, we stage the very process of her remembering. The performance explores how the multiplicity of memory and the constant shifting between different perspectives create confusion and inner conflict, and how, by rewriting past events, she attempts to reconstruct herself as a tragic heroine.”
— Kovács Viktor and Kovács Dominik

Kovács Dominik – Kovács Viktor: Mintapinty

Performed by Erzsébet Ecsedi

Directed by Csenge Berta Ecsedi

Visual Design by Csilla Viola Csiszér

Original Music by András Ticz

Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes, including one intermission.