A „traumaelmélet úgy véli, hogy a gyógyulás feltétele a történetek elmondása, az egyén és a társadalom esetében egyaránt”.
1956 megítélése, ki- és elbeszélhetősége, diszkurzív (szín)térbe való helyezése a nyolcvanas évek elejétől kulcsfontosságú. Az igény a forradalmi események kibeszélésére nemcsak az alternatív színházi körökben, hanem a vidéki színházakban − különös tekintettel Kaposvárra − is számottevő volt.
In my paper I wish to present the theatrical representation of traumatic historical events based on the performance entitled 56/06/Mad Soul, Defeated Forces (56/06/Őrült lélek, vert hadak) directed by János Mohácsi.
I regard this performance as being transparent in several respects, if we examine the integrability of the events from 1956 in the contemporary Hungarian theatre-historical canon. On the one hand, as several publicpolitical debates unfolded in connection with the 1956 revolution, in which “the emphasis was primarily laid on the possibilities of historical representation and the cultural, political consequences” (K. T. 35.). Thus the aesthetic-political experiments aiming at the processing of the traumatic events urge establishing a more precise diagnosis, which is based on the paradigm of memory and the attitude to the past.
On the other hand, it is worth drawing relevant conclusions regarding Mohácsi’s performances if we accept that the attitude of the theatre is not the same as that of politics. Although they mutually infl uence each other, when analysing the theatrical forms of expression, the performative contexts deriving from the relation system of the observer-observed must be taken into consideration, creating thus a collective, cultural memory through which the observer identifies what s/he sees, through his/her own medial, everyday experience network, with a kind of political content. In this way the political aspect of the theatre cannot become equal to politics, as the performances seek the answer to the procession of a trauma, to the “changed social communication shaped by the generalization of information technologies” (H-T. L. 18.)
