“Young people need heroes and role models even today. Great deeds and grand emotions still move their fancy. I feel that it’s important to step out of everyday life and to tell pure stories in a fast-changing world full of uncertainty and without any points of reference.
Gárdonyi’s novel is a truly great story about love, loyalty (and treason), courage, patriotism, heroism, and coming of age…
We are not adapting the novel for the stage, but looking for a special vantage point from which to present Géza Gárdonyi’s story to young people in a valid way, so that all the emotions, deeds and adventures that make the novel so enjoyable should be included. We’ll see the story from the point of view of a group of children in the castle watching from a safe place (locked up there by the adults to keep them out of harm’s way during the siege)… We see the story of the adults – Gergő Bornemissza, Éva Cecey, Dobó, Youmourjuk and the others – through their eyes. And perhaps, the children might even alter the course of history,” says Attila Vidnyánszky.