Muck is one of the very few productions of the season 2009-2010 which reflected on present Hungarian reality in a visceral, no-nonsense manner (Mein Kampf by Tabori at the National directed by former Krétakör-actor Roland Rába is another one). In a time when a paramilitary fascist organisation like the Hungarian Guard can form in this country, and when after a lot of evasion and empty talk it is finally banned only to be reformed the next day; in a time when the language of the 1930‘s is once again socially acceptable both in papers and on street; in a time when racist murderers drive around killing Gypsies randomly including a 5 year old boy; in a time when a state president does not feel the need to speak up until after the seventh such attack in  row; in such times it is extremely hard to understand how most theatre-makers can go about doing their light farces and deep Russian dramas with absolutely no reference to the world around us. Béla Pintér’s theatre thrives on the present, on what is happening to us. Very lucky for us.

What Béla Pintér puts on stage is not only unmistakably stage-worthy drama, but recognisable Hungarian reality. With rapturous imagination his grotesques conjure up the current dream-world out of the everyday bitterness of the most wretched Hungarian. (...)The company wraps its sentimentality in irony and operates a human sincerity shot through with satire. Its every word, every movement precise, worked out, apposite and sincere (...)  Muck is one of the best Hungarian plays of all time and a thrilling performance. - Péter Molnár Gál

Music: Róbert Kerényi
Costume design: Mari Benedek
Assistant of Costume designer: Júlia Kiss 
Set designer: Gábor Tamás
Mask, puppet: Sosa Juristovszky
Light: Zoltán Vida
Assistants of the director: Rozália Hajdú
Financing: Gyula Inhaizer
Production manager: Anna Hidvegi
Writer and director: Béla Pintér

All pre-meeting groups will get back in time to see the award-winning production by one of the flagship companies of the Hungarian independent scene, the Béla Pintér Company about an elderly couple who adopt a Roma orphan thereby turning their village life on its head. Muck has been invited to the most prestigious international festivals and won numerous awards, including Best New Play.