There is no need to moralize, or think, everybody
should relax and enjoy. Let’s face our own peccadilloes, and laugh.
One should celebrate the good text, the scenery of high standard,
the exquisite acting and shouldn’t ask incessantly What for? because
one might get killed. Criticism is dead, long live the Theatre!
Katalin Köllo in Szabadság, Oct. 23, 2003
Quality time is guaranteed if you accept that there
is such a man – especially if he is English – who is so
absentminded that he mistakes his mother-in-law for his own mother.
/…/ Tom Stoppard amuses us, but in an ironic way. Thus, not
from outside, pointing: “Look, you are like this!”, but
from inside, confronting us with ourselves, as well as him with himself.
Director David Zinder understood this unique quality of the play,
directed it accordingly and found in his actors marvelous partners
for it.
