Csongor and Tünde

The fairies and guardian spirits are played by the students of the Ujbuda Beans Dance Ensemble.

The Night’s monologue is performed by Margit Lukács and is played from an archive recording.

Csongor and Tünde is not merely a dramatized folk tale, and its hero is not only seeking his own love and happiness, but that of all humans. The triple cross-roads serve as a forum for humanity. The three wayfarers represent a merciless world in which they reject ideals and selfishly seek happiness in the form of money and power. They leave  Csongor disenchanted in the temporal world, and he continues his journey, guided by the Star of Love. This story presents a wonderful combination of fairies and real-life characters. The parallel motifs in the fates of Ilma and Tünde, Balga (Simple) and Csongor demonstrate not only the crudeness of the earthly players, but also cast doubt on the dream world and its illusions. In the Night’s monologue, the poet places the seemingly hopeless human endeavours in a cosmic context. Csongor eventually finds Tünde and happiness and Paradise on Earth in love. Vörösmarty displays unprecedented colours of poetic language in Csongor and Tünde, creating a perfect combination of tale and real, fairy-like and vulgar, fair and foul, soaring and slouching, playful and philosophical, realistic and unrealistic.