Theatre production – Sunset Limited (HU, ENG SUB)

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📍 Venue: Aula, Faculty of Theatre and Film (2 Burebista St.)

Cormac McCarthy’s “The Sunset Limited” explores, through the encounter between two middle-aged men, questions related to meaning, faith, and hope. At the time of its appearance, this existential conflict mainly reflected the dilemmas of a generation marked by life experiences, disappointments and a loss of trust in the world. In this production, the story is interpreted by student actors around the age of twenty, a choice that goes beyond the simple formal experiment and highlights the fact that existential uncertainty no longer belongs only to the later stages of life, but is becoming an increasingly present experience among younger generations.The minimalist stage setting amplifies the philosophical tension of the text: two radically different visions of the world that come into conflict. One of the characters stubbornly clings to the possibility of meaning in life, while the other perceives the world as fundamentally devoid of meaning and hope. The debate is not only intellectual, but deeply personal, being a confrontation between two ways of living and surviving.

Thus, “The Sunset Limited” becomes not only a story of disillusionment, but also a reflection on a generation that must confront, from the very beginning of its journey, questions once reserved for later stages of life. Ultimately, the show asks a simple yet unsettling question: if the idea of an ending is present from the start, how can life still be lived?

Cast: Imreh Tamás, Róbert Szilárd. Direction: Gemza Péter. Author: Cormac McCarthy.