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DIRECTING: Zita Szenteczki
TEXT: Zita Szenteczki, Panna Horváth
PREMIERE: 2025, Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre, Subotica, Serbia
A docu-theatre piece that exposes beauty standards, violence, and projection as social constructs by positioning bodies, objects, and aesthetic ideals against each other in a performative manner.
“Starting from the story of Csilla Molnár, a young beauty queen, The Murder of Beauty investigates the cruel mechanisms of the social gaze and the pressure of expectations placed upon the female body. The production is set in the milieu of the 1980s, yet its questions are painfully contemporary: How does the patriarchal system shape female identity, and how does ‘beauty’ simultaneously become capital, expectation, and trap?
On stage, the promise of success intertwines with the experience of exposure and helplessness. The female figure placed in the spotlight is not merely an object of desire but a social project: her body, her decisions, and her fate are shaped by external forces—media, power structures, collective judgments. The performance reveals with sensitivity and uncompromising precision that behind the personal tragedy lies a collective responsibility. Who watches? Who remains silent? Who benefits from beauty becoming competition and commodity?”
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