TÁRGYILAGOS ERŐSZAK: GYEREKEK ELLENI ERŐSZAK MEGJELENÍTÉSE A KIVI CÍMŰ BÁBELŐADÁSBAN.

In 2013, the Budapest Puppet Theatre premiered Kivi, directed by Ildikó Gáspár. This play tells the story of a group of homeless children as they struggle for survival, and its plot unfolds from two parallel monologues. In this production, Kivi's story was narrated/played by Anna Spiegl, and Licsi's by Péter Bercsényi. In Daniel Danis's drama, innocence and cruelty are in a state of tension, and this duality is reflected in the visual world of the performance. The object play, representing the abuse which the children suffered and the anguish of this overall brutality was intensified to the extreme by showing violence against insensitive objects without any camouflage, imitation or stylization. Here the viewer's gaze decodes the objects as bodies in real pain within the symbolic structure constructed in the performance. This article explores the workings of this contradictory symbolic structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]