Zürcher Theater Spektakel

A spectre is haunting Europe as right-wing nationalism continues to gain ground. In Hungary, the native country of theatre-maker Béla Pintér, this unsettling trend is omnipresent. Pintér and his outstanding cast counter with a grotesque, scathing farce. A provincial couple wants to adopt children. As there are no infants available, they adopt two teenage girls, one of them ugly, the other a Roma girl. This causes great turmoil in the peasant village and soon the façade of tradition and folklore crumbles away. What’s foreign is foul (as the title implies) ‒ and this attitude is in all of us. (MB)