Eva Duda

Népszabadság • Tamás Halász • 3 June 2003
Dancer-choreographer Éva Duda has created a beautiful, tightly composed, dry and sentimental dance performance based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novel entitled The Little Prince. The Wanderer shown in Merlin Theatre uses the story of the star-boy manifesting to the pilot after an accident in the desert, but does not attempt to go overboard with the adaptation. It lends only part of its sad beauty and general wisdom disguised as a tale. Éva Duda, the choreographer and director of The Wanderer keeps the hero, his eternal scarf – in red instead of gold, but the figure of the storyteller is nowhere. The choreographer inserts her lonely prince in a more adult, yet, simpler world. Csongor Szabó, the excellent main character of the performance is fragile, yet unbreakable, adult, yet a little boy, who, apart from some slight grimaces, plays his character with the same unpredictably innocent face.

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