Dzsuva
Debris

Summary/Abstract: Dennis Kelly (1970), contemporary British playwright and scriptwriter’s first drama Debris, appears in this issue in the Hungarian translation of dramaturge Júlia Sándor. The drama was first presented in London, at Theatre 503, in 2003. According to its interpreters, the text shows the stylistic features of in-yer-face dramas: this term was used by critics for the theatrical tendency of the 1990’s in Great Britain that tried to impress the audience with its shocking rhetoric. Kelly’s drama does not in any way resort to linguistic or thematic fineries, but still manages to explore the horror of human existence with refined theatrical fantasy and humour. The two characters of his play are the siblings Michelle andMichael, who approach their own dysfunctional childhood through the language of horror-fantasy, in which fiction and reality intertwine. Storytelling leads back to the traumatic origin of birth, where destruction has started – and apparently will always start. This is so because – next to the socio-graphic character of situations created by emotional void, aggression, alcoholism and poverty – the generalhuman, especially childhood experience of vulnerability is equally strong. The impossible struggle for life in a world that is hostile to the core – this is what Kelly’s characters express theatrically.

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